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What happens when a object pass the solar system and enters earth's atmosphere?
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Usually meteors that collide with the earth's atmosphere are burned upon entry. The become what is known as "shooting stars".
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What is a meteor's temperature?
A "meteor" is when you see a "shooting star"; at that moment, the object is entering the Earth's atmosphere, and since it enters with a very high speed, its temperature, at least on the surface, gets hot enough to vaporize any material. Probably a few thousand degrees.
What does meteoroid mean?
A meteroid is a natural object in space. A meteroid can enter the atmosphere and become a meteor. If its remains strike the ground and survive, it is a meteorite.
What happens when light shines through an opaque object?
The photons all get absorbed. None of them make it to the other side to escape.
What is a chunk of rock or dust in space that usually comes from a comet or an asteroid is?
"Meteoroid". If it actually hits the Earth's atmosphere, the streak of light will be a "meteor", and if the object survives to impact the Earth's surface then we call the remains a "meteorite".
What is the lowest stable orbit around the moon?
Since the Moon has no atmosphere, any orbit where an object doesn't crash onto the Moon would do - even a few meters above the highest mountaintop that might otherwise interfere with the orbit.
What object crosses paths with earth and enters earths atmosphere?
metior
What is a solar system object that enters Earths atmosphere and becomes very hot?
A asteroid ... You my son knows that n you don't ?
What is a solar system object that enters Earth's atmosphere and becomes very hot due to friction between the object and Earth's atmosphere?
Meteor
What happens if a asteroid hits your atmosphere would it become a meteorite?
Yes. An asteroid that enters Earth's atmosphere is known as a meteorite. If the object is small in size it will simply burn up in the Earth's upper atmosphere. If the object is significantly larger, it has a possibility of impacting the ground or ocean depending on its mass and composition.
What was the first ever man made object to leave the earths atmosphere?
sputnik
What is the name of a solid object traveling through space that strikes Earths atmosphere?
meteorite
What happens if an object enters the rectum?
If an object is entered into the anus, it usually requires a trip the the ER to have it removed.
Does meteors orbit the sun?
An object only becomes a meteor when it leaves orbit and enters earth's atmosphere.
Meteors that reach the earths surface are called?
A meteor IS a what you call a body of matter when it enters earth's atmosphere. A meteoroid is what you call a body of matter in space that hasn't entered earth's atmosphere. Source: Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/meteor
Why does a meteroid glow when it enters the earth's atmosphere?
When an object enters (or re-enters) Earth's atmosphere from outer space, the air is heated by the friction of the object's passage. This friction makes the object glow as it heats up. Remember, these things are traveling very fast, perhaps thousands of miles an hour, so the air around them gets heated up quite a bit. Space capsules and such have to have very good heat insulation on them or they'd burn up on re-entry.
How does gravity affect an object in motion?
it pulls the object towards the earth which kind of slows it down i guess. or is that friction? For an object travelling in the Earths atmosphere, or near to the Earth above the atmosphere, gravity provides a force pulling the object towards the centre of the Earth. Unless the object is travelling fast enough, what is called the escape velocity, this gravity force will ultimately cause the object to fall back to the surface. Friction is something else, the friction with the air in the atmosphere also slows the object, but this force acts in opposition to the direction of motion, not towards the Earths centre. To compute the trajectory of the object you need to take both forces into account.
What is an interplanetary material that falls in to earths atmosphere?
As it falls through the atmosphere and heats up, the glowing streak of light is called a meteor. If fragments of the object actually get through the atmosphere and fall to the ground, the fragments are called meteorites.
