In the great tradition of tracking Amazing Norwegian Meteorite Stories, we bring you:
Meteorite almost hits Norwegian skydiver
Short Norwegian version...
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Interesting and plausible alternative explanation by Danial at skylightsblog (link above)
The alternative conjecture ought to be testable by checking the relative speed of the rock - if it was released from the canopy it will not have had time to accelerate to very high relative speed, probably not at terminal velocity (I'm guesstimating without having done the calculation)
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