Reentry.
This type of heat transfer is called radiation.
When a spacecraft goes into space its speed increases dramatically once it leave the earths atmosphere. When it is returning to earth, it hits the atmosphere at a faster rate than it was traveling when it left. The friction of the atmosphere against the craft, heats it up.
If it burns up in the atmosphere, it is a meteor. If it manages to make it through the atmosphere and land on Earth, it is a meteorite. A really bright meteor is called a bollide.
A meteor. Technically, "meteor" is the fiery trail of the space rock as it falls. If the rock survives passing through the atmosphere, the rock (or fragments of it) are called "meteorites".
Meteors do not orbit the Sun. Meteors are to be found/seen in the Earth's atmosphere burning up. Before they enter the Earths atmosphere they are called meteoroids and if they land on Earth they are called meteorites.
Re-entry. Kind of anticlimactic, isn't it?
When a rock falls through Earth's atmosphere, it is called a meteoroid. If it survives the journey and lands on Earth's surface, it is then called a meteorite.
A rock or metal that plummets through the atmosphere and falls to Earth is called a meteorite. When a meteoroid survives its passage through the atmosphere and lands on the Earth's surface, it is referred to as a meteorite.
A meteoroid that enters Earth's atmosphere is called a meteor. When it burns up upon entering the Earth's atmosphere, it creates a streak of light in the sky known as a meteor or shooting star. If a meteor survives its passage through the atmosphere and lands on Earth's surface, it is then referred to as a meteorite.
When it is raining, water is returning to Earth during a water cycle stage called precipitation. This is when water vapor in the atmosphere condenses into clouds and falls to the ground as rain, snow, sleet, or hail.
An object that survives Earth's atmosphere and strikes the surface is called a meteorite. It is a fragment of a meteoroid that has passed through the atmosphere and landed on Earth.
... compresses the air in front and around it so that the air glows and at night you see a "shooting star" - a meteor. If it impacts the ground before evaporating, it is a bolide and may leave a mineral remnant called a meteorite.
A stone entering Earth's atmosphere is called a meteoroid. As it travels through the atmosphere and begins to burn up due to friction and heat, it is then called a meteor or shooting star. If any portion of the meteoroid reaches the Earth's surface, it is known as a meteorite.
The Earth's atmosphere is just gas, just like an airplane can get through clouds, a rocket can get through the Earth's atmosphere.
This type of heat transfer is called radiation.
It is called the Atmosphere.
The atmosphere viewed from Earth is called the exosphere.