Meteors burn up in the atmospheres of planets. The heat is USUALLY taught/understood to be created by friction between the gases in the atmosphere and the surface of the meteor. In actuality, most of the heat is created by the compression of the gas. As the meteor streaks into the atmosphere, it creates a “bow shock” of compressed gas that heats up to the point where the rock in the meteor vaporizes!
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u/Aussie18-1998 Dec 29 '20
Although if you could somehow survive the immense pressure you could theoretically land on the rocky core.