Splashery

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Asteroid, a still.

Space · Built from a recipe

Asteroid

E4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 359.0 Hz.

Turn it in the PlaygroundTap the picture to strike it.

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

Its note

Splashery stretches a drumhead over this Splash's outline, twelve inches across, and finds the ways it can ring. Its lowest is 359.0 Hz, 148 cents sharp of E4, the nearest tine on the comb. The next fifteen are its overtones, and each one draws its own figure: sand gathers on the lines that stay still.

The sixteen ways Asteroid's drum can ring, lowest first.
  1. 1359 Hz
  2. 2502 Hz
  3. 3630 Hz
  4. 4653 Hz
  5. 5763 Hz
  6. 6806 Hz
  7. 7894 Hz
  8. 8914 Hz
  9. 9963 Hz
  10. 101037 Hz
  11. 111042 Hz
  12. 121120 Hz
  13. 131163 Hz
  14. 141184 Hz
  15. 151195 Hz
  16. 161278 Hz

How to play

Tap it to break it apart; its pieces pull back together.

Its controls

ControlKindRangeStart
Break it apartTap
Break upButton

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

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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