According to geologist Hans Amundsen of the Natural History Museum in Oslo ....
You're looking at the first ever film of a meteorite, falling through its dark flight stage.
The lucky guy, who filmed it, was a skydiver, the name, Anders Helstrup, who survived
the encounter, unscathed.
The chances of this happening, according to the scientist, are " much less likely than
winning the lottery three times in a row. "
Here's the original video.
You can see the meteorite zooming down at the 0:22 mark.
[youtube]gzYJaQ0h4Dg?rel=0[/youtube]
" Press the subtitle button, to know that they say. "
While he almost got hit by it, Anders told the Norwegian national television NKR that he
didn't see it when it happened.
During this phase, the meteorite " no longer travels at an angle, but falls straight down."
According to Amundsen, who initially was very skeptical about it's nature, it can't be
anything else but a fragment of a meteorite: " The shape is typical of meteorite a
fresh fracture surface on one side while the other side is rounded. "
He believes that " the meteorite had been part of a larger stone that exploded
at 20 kilometers high, in the Earth's atmosphere, above Helstrup ".
Regards.
You're looking at the first ever film of a meteorite, falling through its dark flight stage.
The lucky guy, who filmed it, was a skydiver, the name, Anders Helstrup, who survived
the encounter, unscathed.
The chances of this happening, according to the scientist, are " much less likely than
winning the lottery three times in a row. "
Here's the original video.
You can see the meteorite zooming down at the 0:22 mark.
[youtube]gzYJaQ0h4Dg?rel=0[/youtube]
" Press the subtitle button, to know that they say. "
While he almost got hit by it, Anders told the Norwegian national television NKR that he
didn't see it when it happened.
During this phase, the meteorite " no longer travels at an angle, but falls straight down."
According to Amundsen, who initially was very skeptical about it's nature, it can't be
anything else but a fragment of a meteorite: " The shape is typical of meteorite a
fresh fracture surface on one side while the other side is rounded. "
He believes that " the meteorite had been part of a larger stone that exploded
at 20 kilometers high, in the Earth's atmosphere, above Helstrup ".
Regards.
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