The mesosphere is where meteorites burn up. Most people call them shooting stars.
Shooting stars are actually meteors or pieces of space junk. These materials will burn up in the mesosphere layer of the atmosphere.
A shooting star doesn't occur on a layer of the atmosphere but in enters from the top layer of the atmosphere
Mesosphere
A meteor. If any of it survives the fall through the atmosphere and makes it to Earth, that part is a meteorite.
A comet, shooting star, asteroid meteorite?
Meteors are not stars at all. They are CALLED "shooting stars" because superficially they look like stars that move (shoot).Meteors are gravel or boulders that enter the Earth's atmosphere at high velocity and friction with the atmosphere heats the outer layers so much that they become white hot (they glow and therefore look somewhat like stars).If the entire piece of rock does not vaporize during it's descent - called a bolide, the remains (if as large as or bigger than your fist) are, in fact, cool to the touch because outer space is about -270° C. The journey through the atmosphere has taken but a few tens of seconds and has not managed to heat the entire rock to the core.
Its because there is NOTHING between each star, that light can react against, it's something to do with air, or the atmosphere, because there is no light on the moon, (like there is on earth) since it has no atmosphere. or any sort of gas. The atmosphere scatters the light, no atmosphere, no visible light, (like the light on earth).
You tell them that a rock from space fell into earth, and it was going so fast that it burned up. You could also tell them that this is what a shooting star is.
Meteors come from outer space and crash into our atmosphere which burns them. That's what a shooting star is.
A shooting star, which is within the Earth's atmosphere.
Correct. A shooting star is a meteor, a small object burning up in Earth's atmosphere.
The correct name for a shooting star is a Meteorite. Before a meteorite enters the Earths atmosphere it is called a Meteoroid.
A silly question. Humans are not at all like shooting stars.
There is no opposite, A shooting star is a speck of dust from outer space burning up in the atmosphere from frictional heating.
A meteor that's what it is
Supernovas. A 'shooting star' is not a star at all, it is a meteor glowing as it enters the earth's atmosphere.
It is a meteorite.
A Meteor.
It enters the earth's atmosphere.
A shooting star is a small piece of dust or rock that burns up in the atmosphere. It is significantly smaller than the Moon.