What happens to things that burn up in your atmosphere?

Answer 1

Pretty much anything that enters the atmosphere at high speed, where the heat from friction with the atmosphere will burn objects up. Most objects would be Meteors, shooting stars. These are small lumps of rock that have come too close to the earth. Artificial satellites will also burn up once their orbits are allowed to degrade at the end of their lives.

Answer 2

When entering or exiting the atmosphere, an object has an extremely high speed (for example, the Space Shuttle has a top speed of about Mach 20). The huge amount of friction between the object and the air generates heat and helps slow the object down, and protect the earth from meteors and comets flying radomly.

Answer 3

The vast majority of the heating objects (whether rocks or The Shuttle) experience during reentry---over 80 percent---is caused by compression of the air ahead of the ultrasonic vehicle, in accordance with the basicthermodynamic relation between pressure and temperature. A hot shock wave is created in front of the vehicle, which deflects most of the heat and prevents the object's surface from directly contacting the peak heat. Therefore reentry heating is largely convective heat transfer between the shock wave and the orbiter's skin through superheated plasma.

Answer 4

When meteors or spacecraft enter the atmosphere, they are traveling at high rates of speed. Spacecraft orbit at about 17,000 miles per hour, and meteors can be traveling at 50,000 miles per hour or faster.

Because the atmosphere is NOT moving (much), the spacecraft or meteor will rub against the air causing friction, which can wear away the surface. The Space Shuttle uses specially designed ceramic tiles and a plastic coating designed to wear away smoothly, but meteors can be of any shape and are highly irregular.

The sudden high temperature can cause the meteor to disintegrate (or come apart) and then each piece will experience the friction and high temperatures of reentry into the atmosphere.

Answer 5

because the atmospere is so hot that the things that are in the atmospere can not withstand the heat of the atmospere because the heat is to hot it will just burn up what ever gets in its way

Answer 6

Friction due to air resistance.

Answer 7

Meteoroids or meteors.

Answer 8

No they don't.