Skydiver nearly gets hit by a meteorite

[KamaAina]

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/outposts/post/skydiver-nearly-gets-hit-by-a-meteorite/

A skydiver in Norway captured incredible video of an extinguished meteorite shooting past him soon after he deployed his parachute, something that has never been seen before, let alone been recorded.

“This is the first time in history that a meteorite has been filmed in the air after its light goes out,” geologist Hans Amundsen told the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation, Norway’s largest media organization also know as NRK....

“When we stopped the film, we could clearly see something that looked like a stone,” he said. “At first it crossed my mind that it had been packed into a parachute, but it’s simply too big for that.”...

“If you’d jumped a fraction of a second later, you’d be dead,” Amundsen told Helstrup in NRK’s report above. “It would have cut him in half. Imagine a 5-kilo [11-pound] rock hitting you in the chest at 300 kilometers [186 miles] per hour. That would have led to quite an accident investigation.”

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

1. Yeah, and IF ...

... half a second here, a wind gust there, and it would have taken out the plane. That's when it is GOOD to be floating under a parachute.

A near miss all around.

Meteorite? It just looked like a chunk of sidewalk. I thought meteorites would be in an envelope of flame and smoke.

[KamaAina]

2. The envelope of flame is the glow it makes when it first strikes the atmosphere

which is gone well before it reaches that altitude.