SkyDiver Films Meteor in 'Dark Flight'

[Charlie Prime]

This was pretty cool. A 30 pound rock hitting you at 300 mph would ruin your day. Thankfully, he was not hit...

Skydiver nearly hit by falling METEORITE after parachute opens | Mail Online

 

[Goggs Mackay]

So is it normal for there to be no smoke trail etc? Anyway, an insane close call and one in a billion camera capture.
Great post.

 

[Wade]

It is a cool post but I would think a meteorite would be hauling ass and be barely perceptible to the eye. I wonder if this was an airplane's "dropping" instead. A piece of space debris does make for more interesting retelling to the grandkids.

 

[Wade]

Also wouldn't it have created some kind of wake or turbulence that would have tossed the skydiver around ?

 

[Randall]

I doubt it was an actual meteor.

 

[Charlie Prime]

Also wouldn't it have created some kind of wake or turbulence that would have tossed the skydiver around ?

Not moving that slow.

Meteorites are worth big bucks. This one would be worth a fortune to collectors because it was filmed. I heard they calculated the impact zone to a 100 square meter area, but the land was boggy.

 

[manxman]

I doubt it was an actual meteor.

it was a meteorite, theres a difference, so you are right.

is there another name for an incoming 15 kilo space rock.

 

[Wade]

it was a meteorite, theres a difference, so you are right.

is there another name for an incoming 15 kilo space rock.

widow maker ??

 

[Randall]

it was a meteorite, theres a difference, so you are right.

is there another name for an incoming 15 kilo space rock.

If it was a meteorite, I must have missed the part where they located the impact site and somehow verified that the meteorite was the same object ( if it was an actual object ) that was caught on video. In the meantime, for all I know, it was a watermelon that accidentally rolled out of the jump plane, or it was a staged scene with an object released by another jumper, or is CG FX.