That's a description of meteoroids.
stratosphere
When objects enter an atmosphere, they get very hot and would burn up due to friction. Mercury, however, does not have a atmosphere that can block meteoroids, so it is continually battered by space rocks.
All planets, both with and without atmospheres, encounter meteoroids. If the planet has an atmosphere then those meteoroids will burn up long before reaching the surface. Those without atmospheres do not have such protection and so the meteoroids strike the surface directly.
That depends. Meteoroids are pretty cold when they float around in space. When they enter our atmosphere, they get super hot and usually burn up in the thermospere.
They disintegrate into dust from the heat.
Meteoroids are small, solid, extraterrestrial bodies that hits the earth's atmosphere.
Mesosphere
stratosphere
Various objects enter our atmosphere from space, primarily in the form of meteoroids, which are small rocky or metallic bodies. When these meteoroids enter the atmosphere, they experience intense friction, causing them to heat up and often disintegrate into meteors or "shooting stars." Additionally, larger objects, such as asteroids or comets, can also enter the atmosphere, and if they survive the descent, they may land on Earth as meteorites. Cosmic dust and tiny particles from space also continuously enter our atmosphere, contributing to the background of extraterrestrial material on Earth.
Meteoroids don't enter the earths atmosphere, Meteors do. Meteoroids are the rocks that you find on the ground after a meteor penetrated the atmosphere and made it to the ground.
The mesosphere protects the earth from most meteoroids.
Yes, the mesosphere helps protect Earth from meteoroids by burning up smaller meteoroids as they enter the atmosphere due to friction with gas molecules. This process causes them to disintegrate before reaching the Earth's surface.
We know that there are small meteoroids and dust in space because meteorites (meteoroids that survive the atmosphere and land on Earth) exist, and also because we can see meteoroids as meteors (the light coming from a meteoroid burning up in the atmosphere) in the sky.
MESOSPHERE
a meteor
Those are most likely meteors, which are space debris that enter Earth's atmosphere at high speeds. The friction from the atmosphere heats up the meteor, causing it to glow brightly and eventually burn up, creating a streak of light known as a meteor or shooting star.
The Mesosphere