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		hdevalence on April 3, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Norwegian skydiver nearly struck by meteorite I wonder if it's possible to use computer vision techniques on the video footage to calculate the position and altitude of the skydiver at the time, and then also estimate the trajectory of the rock?

chillax on April 3, 2014 [–]

Some analysis going on here at least (text in norwegian though): http://norskmeteornettverk.no/wordpress/?p=1329

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