A skydiver’s helmet cam captures a meteorite zipping past him as it falls.
A skydiver’s helmet cam videotapes a meteorite zipping past him as it falls.
The incident happened back in the summer of 2012, when skydiver Anders Helstrup and other members of the Oslo Parachute Club took to the skies above Hedmark, Norway. Helstrup documented the jump with two cameras fixed to the front and back of his helmet. Helstrup tells NRK (the largest media outlet in Norway) that on the way down he felt “something” happen, but didn’t know what. It was only after landing and reviewing his camera footage that he discovered something shocking: a rock had fallen from the heavens and missed him by just a few yards.
Video below the fold. The news woman is annoying, but the footage is quite cool.
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A skydiver’s helmet cam videotapes a meteorite zipping past him as it falls.
The incident happened back in the summer of 2012, when skydiver Anders Helstrup and other members of the Oslo Parachute Club took to the skies above Hedmark, Norway. Helstrup documented the jump with two cameras fixed to the front and back of his helmet. Helstrup tells NRK (the largest media outlet in Norway) that on the way down he felt “something” happen, but didn’t know what. It was only after landing and reviewing his camera footage that he discovered something shocking: a rock had fallen from the heavens and missed him by just a few yards.
Video below the fold. The news woman is annoying, but the footage is quite cool.
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In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
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And I thought that the couple who won the lottery three times in March was about as high of a statistical anomaly as there might be. Apparently I was wrong!
The sky is falling, the sky is falling!
Amazing!
That is most definitely a six sigma event. “I almost got hit by a meteorite while skydiving.” is a story that’s hard to top. And I didn’t know that meteorite-sniffing dogs were a thing.
“That’s no moon.”
“That’s a rock!”
The shape of the meteor and how it’s falling is very interesting.
The resolution of this object is pretty good actually, this from something maybe like a gopro camera.