Friction.
Let's talk about "coldest layer" for a minute.
The temperature profile of the atmosphere drops pretty sharply from the surface up to about 10km, stays more or less constant up to 20km, then starts gradually increasing again to a peak (still lower than surface temperature) around 50km, drops gradually to a minimum around 90km, then increases very sharply again above that, reaching surface temperatures again around 110km and continuing to increase beyond that.
So the coldest layer is that from around 80-100 km.
To meteors, the actual temperature of the atmosphere doesn't matter all that much. Even at the surface (which is considerably warmer than the region they mostly burn up in), the temperature is not high enough to burn up a meteor. Melt, maybe, if it were made of ice, but not much more than that.
What happens instead is that the fast-moving meteor compresses (and therefore heats ... Ideal Gas Law) the air in front of it by a lot. Also, the friction of the air rushing past the meteor heats both the air itself and the meteor. That's what makes them "burn up", not the temperature of the atmosphere itself.
(This does lead to the question of why they don't burn up even higher where the temperature is higher, and the reason for that is that temperature is a measure of the average kinetic energy of molecules. Molecules above 110 km have a lot of kinetic energy per molecule, but there aren't that many of them, so the overall energy is still low, and the meteor has little problem radiating away the small amount of energy it picks up from them.)
mesophere
Temperatures decrease in the third layer of the atmosphere the mesosphere. This is where meteors burn up and cause shooting stars.
Meteors start to glow in the Mesosphere, and usually burn out in the upper Stratosphere. Put another way, when you first see a meteor, it is about 80 miles up, and when it "goes out" it is about 40 miles up.
Meteors /meteorite .There are also called shooting stars when they burn up in the atmosphere due to friction on entry in earth's atmosphere..
They would burn up before they reach the Earth.
mesophere
The mesosphere is the coldest layer in our atmosphere because it is right above the ozone layer.Hurricanes form in this layerMost meteors burn up in this layer, as well.
Meteors burn up in the Mesosphere because of friction between the meteors and the molecules located here. The mesosphere is the coldest part of the Earth's atmosphere.
Meteors burn up in the Mesosphere because of friction between the meteors and the molecules located here. The mesosphere is the coldest part of the Earth's atmosphere.
Meteors burn up in the high atmosphere. If they land on Earth, they become meteorites.
The hottest layer is the mesosphere that is why meteors and asteroids burn in this layer .
Temperatures decrease in the third layer of the atmosphere the mesosphere. This is where meteors burn up and cause shooting stars.
The mesosphere is where meteorites burn up. Most people call them shooting stars.
The layers of the atmosphere are thetroposhphere where most of the weather occurs and this is the layer we live on. The stratospher is the layer that contains thes ozone and 19% of the gasses. The moseospher is the thirs layer and is the coldest plus meteors burn up in this layer. The thermospher is the 4th layer and the warmest. The exosphere is the outer most layer and is often called outerspace.
Mesophere. They don't burn up because of the ambient air temperature, but because of the heat generated by friction - they are moving incredibly fast.
Atmosphere.
Meteors shine because of gases that burn in Earth's atmosphere. The friction caused by traveling in the atmosphere ignites the gases.