--- title: Viral Video: Skydiver in Oslo Almost Hit by Meteorite description: That would've hurt canonical: https://time.com/48913/watch-a-skydiver-almost-get-hit-by-a-meteorite/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-04-04T13:00:04.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:08:29.499Z og:title: Watch a Skydiver Almost Get Hit By A Meteorite og:description: That would've hurt og:url: https://time.com/48913/watch-a-skydiver-almost-get-hit-by-a-meteorite/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch a Skydiver Almost Get Hit By A Meteorite twitter:description: That would've hurt twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch a Skydiver Almost Get Hit By A Meteorite > Sponsored content. 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Yet a Norwegian skydiver claims he was nearly hit by a flying space rock during a recent air jump and he has it on video. Back in 2012, Oslo Parachute Club member Anders Helstrup jumped from a plane with two camera strapped to his helmet. He opened his parachute and glided down to earth, but felt something was off. “I got the feeling that there was something, but I didn’t register what was happening,” Helstrup explained to [NRK.no](http://www.nrk.no/viten/skydiver-nearly-struck-by-meteorite-1.11646757). When he went back to review the footage he had captured, he realized what it was: A rock was hurtling at him. From above. He was perplexed and contacted the Natural History Museum in Oslo for assistance. The experts confirmed his suspicion. “It can’t be anything else. The shape is typical of meteorites – a fresh fracture surface on one side, while the other side is rounded,” said geologist Hans Amundsen to [NRK.no](http://www.nrk.no/viten/skydiver-nearly-struck-by-meteorite-1.11646757).. According to the article, the search is on to find the meteorite on the ground. However if this is all a hoax, it should be fairly hard to track down. \[Via [NRK](http://www.nrk.no/viten/skydiver-nearly-struck-by-meteorite-1.11646757)\] **MORE**: [Death Defying Stunts: Felix Baumgartner and the World’s Greatest Daredevils](http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/10/14/death-defying-stunts-felix-baumgartner-and-the-worlds-greatest-daredevils/) **MORE**: [Frenchman Becomes First Disabled Man To Skydive Over Mount Everest](http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/10/27/frenchman-becomes-first-disabled-man-to-skydive-over-mount-everest/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/48913/watch-a-skydiver-almost-get-hit-by-a-meteorite/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/48913/watch-a-skydiver-almost-get-hit-by-a-meteorite/"},"headline":"Watch a Skydiver Almost Get Hit By A Meteorite","datePublished":"2014-04-04T13:00:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:08:29.499Z","description":"That would've hurt","url":"https://time.com/48913/watch-a-skydiver-almost-get-hit-by-a-meteorite/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Space","viral","Viral video","asteroid"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/48913/watch-a-skydiver-almost-get-hit-by-a-meteorite/","name":"Watch a Skydiver Almost Get Hit By A Meteorite"}}]}] ```