Meteoroid Caught Free-Falling On Video ?
Wednesday, April 23, 2014 - 15:10
in Astronomy & Space
A meteor caught on film during its non-luminous free fall at terminal velocity ? Or an elaborate hoax ? Or something else ? I must admit that when I saw the video posted in the internet a few weeks ago I was intrigued, and operated a willful suppression of disbelief. The footage showed a free-falling black stone that really looked like a meteoroid, passing by the owner of the camera hanging on a parachute, on the skies of Norway. I wanted to believe!Above: sum of frames from the video shot by the parachuters read more