Trying to burn Oreo cookie

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[u/Alty__McAltaccount]

It would need to be large enough. Like an asteroid would ablate mostly away and burn up in reentry (or just entery since it didnt start off on earth) and those are rocks. I think most meteors that are found are mostly metal as well (like the iron bits that can absorb the most heat). An oreo cookie would probably burn all the way up unless it was like the world record largest oreo cookie. Im sure someone could do the math to figure out how large an oreo cookie would have to be to make it from space to hit the ground.

[u/clintj1975 → u/Alty__McAltaccount]

I'm now trying to convince myself if a standard Oreo is light enough, relative to surface area, that it could slow down to reasonable speeds before it vaporized.

[u/Alty__McAltaccount → u/clintj1975]

For simplicity you could assume it is a spherical cookie with a creme filling so it would take the heat evenly. The disk shape would flip around and if it falls edge on the cream filling is unprotected and the filling and the cookie part would react to the heat different. From the video we only see the cookie part surviving and not any of the effect on the filling.

[u/clintj1975 → u/Alty__McAltaccount]

That would be like something out of a cartoon. Random person finds an Oreo wafer, completely stripped clean of creme filling, miles from civilization.