if meatoride fall on the earth it gets smaller in the sky because its really hot so how come sun is hotter then

Question: if meatoride fall on the earth it gets smaller in the sky because its really hot so how come sun is hotter then meatoride and it doesnt get smaller???
- Keywords:
  galaxy,
  meteor
Asked by nicenadia to Alessandro, Angela, Claudia, Marina, Phil on 11 Mar 2013.
- Phillip Wilkinson answered on 11 Mar 2013:
  
  The reason meteors get break up in our atmosphere is because of friction. If you rub your hands together really fast they get warm and when you stick your arm out of the car window, you can feel the air pushing you. Combine these together you have a piece of meteor travelling through the air in our atmosphere that with such speed it heats up and is broken apart.
  
  The sun itself is not entering our atmosphere, just the heat it radiates / gives off. So it doesn’t get any smaller.

Question: if meatoride fall on the earth it gets smaller in the sky because its really hot so how come sun is hotter then meatoride and it doesnt get smaller???