Asteroid
Most circle the Sun in the main asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter.
This picture is a cloud of paint. You can , , , , , , and .
Paint with your finger. It stays on these splats, wherever they go next.
Your paint is on this cloud. to see the sharp picture.
- Shelf
- Space
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC0
How to play
Tap it to break it apart; its pieces pull back together.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Break it apart | Tap | ||
| Break up | Button |
About it
Asteroids are rocky leftovers from when the planets formed, about 4.6 billion years ago. Most circle the Sun in the main asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter. They come in all sizes, from small boulders to worlds hundreds of kilometers wide, and most are lumpy, not round.
Tap it and glowing cracks flash, then it falls apart into 18 pieces that drift off, tumbling, with a puff of dust. Then gravity pulls them back together. Some real asteroids are rubble piles like this: loose heaps of rock held together only by their own weak gravity.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 59,807 at Low, and up to 400,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Muffled Distant Explosion (meteor-boom.mp3) | NenadSimic | CC0 1.0 |
| Rocks.wav (asteroid-crumble.mp3) | adamgryu | CC0 1.0 |
Share it
This link opens it in the Playground. To put it on your own page, add the element and one script tag. Every option.
https://splashery.app/play/?toy=asteroid
<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="asteroid"></splashery-toy>
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