.Meteorite misses skydiver, caught on camera .

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Published on Apr 4, 2014

Meteorite misses skydiver, caught on camera
A meteorite screamed past a skydiver in Norway at 300 miles per hour, narrowly missing him. He was lucky not to get hit by the space rock.

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[VillageIdiot]

Saw that at that other site. Makes you wonder just how much of that stuff is flying around out there.

I can't shake the shivers just thinking about being hit by something like that.

[zorgon]

Universe giving him a warning shot?



Pretty awesome capture though 

[astr0144]

Amazing Video Shows Skydiver's Near Miss With Meteorite. 

A Norwegian man narrowly avoided being hit by a meteorite while skydiving and has captured the first ever video footage of a meteorite travelling through the air after its flame has gone out.
"I got the feeling that there was something, but I didn't register what was happening," Anders Helstrup of the Oslo Parachute Club told Norwegian TV channel NRK.no.
"When we stopped the film, we could clearly see something that looked like a stone. At first it crossed my mind that it had been packed into a parachute, but it's simply too big for that."
A geologist confirmed that a meteoroid had exploded about 20 kilometres above Helstrup and his fellow skydivers.
A meteoroid will slow down when it enters the earth's atmosphere as its molecules ionise, creating a blazing trail of flames across the sky as it turns into a meteorite.
After the flames go out, the meteorite enters a stage known as dark flight, where it falls straight  to earth.
Finding the meteorites
"We just have to find out exactly where Anders was when the meteorite passed. At that moment the meteorite was falling straight down at about 300 kilometres per hour," said geologist Hans Amundsen.
After realising that the stone that almost hit him was most likely a meteorite, Helstrup contacted Oslo's Natural History Museum and his video turned him into a mini-celebrity in the Norwegian meteorite community.
Since the incident in summer 2012, Helstrup and his new-found group of meteorite enthusiasts have been searching for meteorite pieces near the jump location.
Initially they searched over an area of one and a half square kilometres, but today the area has now been narrowed down to an area measuring 10,000 metres.
So far they have found one stone which has coloured patches that resembles a breccia, which is a common type of meteorite rock, but the Natural History Museum in Oslo has laughed at them.
Undeterred, Helstrup and his friends are continuing to search the area, which is quite difficult to search as it contains thick forest, scrub and marshes, so now they want to offer the international meteorite community a chance to help them out on their website.
"Now nerds and creative people from all over the world can have a go," said Amundsen. "It's certainly much less likely than winning the lottery three times in a row."
The website is still under construction but meteorite enthusiasts can view videos of the jump on the Dark Flight YouTube channel.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/amazing-video-shows-skydivers-near-miss-meteorite-180453635.html

[micjer]

[sky otter]

geeeeeeeeze guys..

http://www.thelivingmoon.com/forum/index.php?topic=6556.0



hahahahahahahahah   

[astr0144]

Sky Otters ... up early  posting before me again !   

[sky otter]

hey astro...great minds and all that..


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[The Seeker]

I merged the threads for you, sky, astro; have fun...


seeker