A bit skeptical - it didn't seem to go that much faster than the jumper - even with parachute deployed.

I think this might be legit, this report is made by a science show on NRK called "Schrodingers cat" They are (in addition to having picked a really cool name) usually thorough and fact-based, and they have been running since 1990. NRK is the Norwegian counterpart to the BBC.

It is of course possible that the diver has faked the footage etc, but if so, he has fooled not just the tv-show but also a few scientists. They've even organized search groups to look for this thing.

I'm not sure why you say that it didn't go much faster than the jumper. It only stayed in the frame about 1/3 of a second even though it's not really that close. It may be slower than you might expect a meteorite to be going, but if it's a fragment from after the disintegration/explosion of a larger one it easily might have slowed to just terminal velocity, which seems about right to me from the video.
What made me wonder was the lack of any visible smoke/trail. It could just be a rock dropped from the plane above, even a real meteor dropped from the plane (in case someone found it before the jig was up that it was faked). True, it would be a lot of effort for little pay off, but people do dumber things.
Still unsure...1/2 expecting this to turn out to be a commercial...but for what?

i think wind resistance would eventually slow it down to the point of just having max freefall velocity for it size and weight. It wouldnt continue to go 10's of thousands miles an hour in our atmosphere, it would burn up from the friction.

Me? I think it was in his drogue chute.

http://blog.sleepinginairports.net/2013/03/06/holy-crap-frozen-airplane-poop-crashes-through-british-womans-roof/

I think it was a piece of shit.

Yup, I reckon he scooped it up from the last time he packed his chute...maybe on the ground near loose rocks?

@Payback If pic here is reliable doesn't look like it came from the chute. Also no one is even questioning where it came from. Seems they know.
http://www.universetoday.com/110963/norwegian-skydiver-almost-gets-hit-by-falling-meteor-and-captures-it-on-film/

Looked like a normal sky rock to me. Friggin hate those things.

If you have a look at this picture, the rock seems to be falling at a constant velocity, as it should if it was a meteor fragment - it should be falling at its terminal velocity.
It's hard to judge distance and speed, but might be falling at - say 1-2 meters per frame. If it is shot at 25fps, this would mean that it's falling at 25-50m/s (90-180 km/h, 55-110mph, 80-160 ft/s) faster than the parachute jumper, and would be very close to a probable to the terminal velocity of a falling rock.

I retract my earlier statement.

I think a more interesting title would be "Skydiver killed by meteorite while in free fall." But that might just be a tad morbid, and wrong. So let's go with "hit by" instead . . .

Otherwise, it's quite plausible for something like this to happen. We're constantly being bombarded so eventually it's bound to happen. But yeah, was hoping for more smoke and flames.

Occam's Razor suggests to me it was at least stuck to the plane's landing gear.

I don't doubt it -like every other atom of matter on, in, or under the surface of this planet- came from space. I just think it's currently viewed altitude was due to more terrestrial factors.

I have a really hard time believing this.

In the entire history of air flight, millions and millions of miles have been logged and not once has an airliner, helicopter, blimp or glider ever hit or been hit by a meteorite. I would think the odds would be astronomically higher that an aircraft would be hit than a single skydiver who just happened to have his GoPro on.

Not saying it's impossible, it just feels highly, highly, highly unlikely.

You would think Superman would have learned not to carelessly hit baseballs in random directions after that first incident (sure, he saved Sandra Bullock that time, still killed a dude first).

My first thought was -- this has happened before, but there was never a camera.

We are gathering evidence and data that was never before possible.

Phil Plait, the author of the Bad Astronomy blog is leaning towards this being real. http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/04/05/close_call_video_of_a_skydiver_almost_hit_by_meteoroid.html