{"id":7202,"date":"2014-04-03T23:57:18","date_gmt":"2014-04-03T23:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7202"},"modified":"2014-04-22T19:12:36","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T19:12:36","slug":"skydiver-images-meteoroid-flying-past-him-during-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7202","title":{"rendered":"Skydiver images meteoroid flying past him during jump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A reader points me to this unusual story of a near-miss in the sky:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nrk.no\/viten\/skydiver-nearly-struck-by-meteorite-1.11646757\" target=\"_d\">Skydiver nearly struck by meteorite &#8211; NRK\/Viten<\/a><\/p>\n<p>[ <strong>Update Apr.8<\/strong>: Phil Plait now think it was just a rock bound up inside the parachute of the other skydiver :\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/bad_astronomy\/2014\/04\/08\/skydiving_meteorite_it_was_a_rock.html\" target=\"_d\">Skydiving meteorite: It was a rock. &#8211; Bad Astronomy\/Slate.com<\/a>. ]<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jfEdEIwhj6s?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Update Apr.22.14<\/strong>: Analysis with software designed to study ballistic debris indicates that it was in fact just a rock falling out of the chute:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetary.org\/blogs\/guest-blogs\/2014\/0419-forensic-ballistics.html\" target=\"_d\">Forensic Ballistics: How Apollo 12 Helped Solve the Skydiver Meteorite Mystery &#8211;\u00a0The Planetary Society<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A reader points me to this unusual story of a near-miss in the sky:\u00a0Skydiver nearly struck by meteorite &#8211; NRK\/Viten [ Update Apr.8: Phil Plait now think it was just a rock bound up inside the parachute of the other skydiver :\u00a0Skydiving meteorite: It was a rock. &#8211; Bad Astronomy\/Slate.com. ] Update Apr.22.14: Analysis with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7202\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skydiver images meteoroid flying past him during jump<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,91,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asteroids","category-meteorites","category-space-science"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1Sa","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7474,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=7474","url_meta":{"origin":7202,"position":0},"title":"Update on the mystery of the skydiver and the meteorite","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Earlier in the month I posted about a\u00a0Skydiver\u00a0imaging a\u00a0meteoroid flying past him during jump. 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