Meteoroid Caught Free-Falling On Video ? No, A Stone In The Parachute Pack
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 02:21
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