Do meteorites have an atmosphere

Answer 1

Asteroids do not have atmospheres because their masses are too small to hold gaseous molecules. Some asteroids have tenuous regions around them which may contain more molecules than the space farther from them, but these can scarcely be called atmospheres.

Answer 2

Asteroids don't generally have an atmosphere. They are too small to have much of a gravity field and so don't keep gases around them. There is very little free hydrogen in Earth's atmosphere for a similar reason: Hydrogen is the lightest element and escapes Earth's gravity.

Answer 3

The air in front of it is about 2000 degrees Kelvin, but the ablation it causes is a great remover of heat energy AND a rocky meteor is good insulator ... so its insides could be as cold as space. So the temp of the meteorite could be almost anything.

Answer 4

A meteoroid is the rock left on the ground after a meteor has fallen. How fast the meteor came in will determine the friction of the atmosphere on it, and hence the temperature. A freshly fallen meteoroid would probably be too hot to touch, but freshly fallen ones are almost never the ones found.

Edit: "meteorites" are the things on the ground, "meteoroids" are in space. It's quite likely the questioner has got them mixed up too.

Answer 5

Atmospheric friction heats up the surface fast, causing it to burn off. But any meteor bigger than a Baseball, the interior remains close to the temperature of space--very cold. If you touched a meteor shortly after it landed chanced are it could give you frostbite.

Answer 6

an asteroid is made up of cold, ice, rocks, dust and other minerals/elements. the atmosphere in space is made up of dark matter (gravity, black holes, non luminous matter) and particles that are undefined. space is also luminious matter (stars, planets, dust, comets, white dwarfs and dark energy) i hope that helps.

Answer 7

No. A meteorite is an object from space that has struck Earth's surface. Before entering the atmosphere, these objects, called asteroids or meteoroids, do not have enough gravity to hold an atmosphere.

Answer 8

depends on where in the sky. far from earth, it is super cold, however the closer it gets to earth, the warmer it will get because it will start to melt in our atmosphere

Answer 9

That depends mainly on its distance from the Sun.

Answer 10

poop (it is true many scientist .don't really say ,but its true its a bunch of compost that evaporates into space & turns into a big Ball)