Plate 70
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.
- Family
- Space
- Origin
- Raised from a recipe
- Habit
- Nocturnal: kept on a dark stage
- Voice
- Yes, with the sound on
- Hands-on
- Yes
- Licenses
- CC0
How to play
Tap it to swing it past the Sun and flare its tails.
Notes
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.
Its controls
| Control | Kind | Range | Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swing past the Sun | Tap | ||
| Flare | Button |
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 |