Comet
A comet is a lump of ice, dust and rock, often only a few kilometers wide, that travels around the Sun on a long, stretched orbit.
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- Shelf
- Space
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC0
How to play
Tap it to swing it past the Sun and flare its tails.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swing past the Sun | Tap | ||
| Flare | Button |
About it
A comet is a lump of ice, dust and rock, often only a few kilometers wide, that travels around the Sun on a long, stretched orbit. As it comes near the Sun, its ice turns to gas, making a glowing cloud around it called a coma, and two tails: a straight blue tail of gas and a curved, pale tail of dust. The tails point away from the Sun.
Tap it to swing it past the Sun: jets of gas burst from the sunny side, the coma swells, and both tails flare longer and brighter, then fade back. Halley's Comet comes back about every 76 years.
Details
- Splats
- Opens at 200,000 at Mid Detail, 41,640 at Low, and up to 720,000 at Max
Sources and credits
| Work | By | License |
|---|---|---|
| Torch.wav (comet-fire.mp3) | DanielVega | 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=comet
<script type="module" src="https://splashery.app/play/src/element.js"></script> <splashery-toy toy="comet"></splashery-toy>
Nearby
UranusUranus is the seventh planet from the Sun, an ice giant colored blue-green by methane gas in its air.
NeptuneNeptune is the eighth and farthest planet from the Sun, an ice giant of pale greenish blue, a little bluer than Uranus; the deep blue of older spacecraft pictures came from processing.
Real MoonsFive big moons from USGS maps of pictures by the Voyager, Galileo and Cassini spacecraft: volcanic Io; Europa, cracked ice over a hidden ocean; Ganymede, the largest moon in the solar system; cratered Callisto; and Saturn's moon Titan, with lakes of liquid methane and ethane.
SunThe Sun is the star at the center of our solar system, a huge ball of hot, glowing gas.