
Space · Built from a recipe
Asteroid
E4 on the major comb. Its drum rings at 359.0 Hz.
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.

- 1359 Hz
- 2502 Hz
- 3630 Hz
- 4653 Hz
- 5763 Hz
- 6806 Hz
- 7894 Hz
- 8914 Hz
- 9963 Hz
- 101037 Hz
- 111042 Hz
- 121120 Hz
- 131163 Hz
- 141184 Hz
- 151195 Hz
- 161278 Hz
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 |



