Hi Ian, Interesting that this same video was posted on the Minor Planet Mailing List. Speculation there is it's a rock dropped by a jumper above him. Here's what I posted. Patrick ---------- As someone who has been jumping since the 60s I'd say this looks like when someone has packed some "additional equipment" into a friend's rig. This single rock pales in comparison to years ago when we packed gravel, long strips of toilet paper, gravel and a bunch of talcum powder into a guy's rig. Made for a really spectacular opening (and to this day I don't know if he's forgiven us...). Skydivers: Good to the last drop. Grins, patrick 718 ----------- Sent from my iPad
On Apr 3, 2014, at 13:37, Ian Glenn <root.ibg@gmail.com> wrote:
Here is a video from a helmet cam of a rock falling past a skydiver. I promise this is not a rick-roll, but also very likely not a meteorite. Still an interesting video.
I thought some on this list might have some alternate explanations? It's not likely to have come from the plane since the divers are wearing wing-suits. Could he have accidentally packed the rock into his chute?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzYJaQ0h4Dg _______________________________________________ Utah-Astronomy mailing list http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/utah-astronomy
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