Do meteorites glow in the dark?
No. Meteorites only glow while they are falling through the air. Once they land and cool down, they are dark, ordinary-looking rocks.
When a space rock rushes into Earth's air, it glows brightly, so it is natural to wonder whether it keeps glowing after it lands. The answer is no.
The glow you see in the sky is caused by the rock smashing through the air at tens of kilometres every second. This heats the air in front of it to thousands of degrees, so the air and the rock's surface shine, like the glowing wire inside an old light bulb. As the rock slows down, high above the ground, the heat stops and so does the glow. The rest of the fall happens in the dark.
The inside of a meteorite stays cold, because the heat lasts only a few seconds and does not have time to soak in. By the time it lands, its outside has usually cooled too. So a meteorite on the ground looks like a dark stone and does not shine at night.
Some toy 'space rocks' sold in shops glow in the dark because they are painted with special paint. A real meteorite never does. If you find a rock that glows by itself, it is not a meteorite, and you should be careful with it and tell an adult.