True size1km across3,281 ft
Most circle the Sun in the main asteroid belt, between Mars and Jupiter.
- Shelf
- Space
- Kind
- Built from a recipe
- Sound
- Yes
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC0
How to play, in the Playground
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 |
