A video recently posted on YouTube appears to show a falling meteoroid just missing a skydiver in Norway. Fast forward to 1:31 to see it streak past.
“If you work out the mathematics, the odds of a 1-kilogram- rock (2.2 lbs.) passing within some 30 feet (9.1 meters) of a person on Earth’s surface within 10 minutes is about 1 in 500 billion,” Bill Cooke of NASA’s Meteoroid Environment Office told Space.com. “You have a 1,000 times greater chance of winning the Powerball lottery.”
UPDATE: Over at Slate, Phil “Bad Astronmy” Plait wrote, “It is entirely possible that what the video shows is a smaller rock that fell out of the skydiver’s parachute.”