Dark Flight Meteor Narrowly Misses Skydiver

[W!nston]

Dark Flight Meteor Narrowly Misses Skydiver

For the first time ever, a meteor has been captured on camera falling through the sky after it has finished burning. And that’s not all: the baseball-sized space rock nearly slammed into the man behind the camera.

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 doented 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.

Here's the video footage:



Full article here:

http://petapixel.com/2014/04/03/skydivers-helmet-cam-captures-falling-meteor-almost-hitting/

 

[gb2000ie]

He's very lucky to have captured something so rare, and even more lucky not to have become the first confirmed human to be struck by a space rock!

B.