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🪐 Roche Limit Rubble Pile: Tidal Break-up in Saturn's Ring Plane (Top View)

Top-down view of a self-gravitating rubble pile of 201 spheres in the tidal frame of Saturn: it is torn apart below its Roche limit. Same N-body engine and six independent checks as the 3D page, with Blender-rendered ring and rubble art.

Physics & Mechanics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted🟠 Blender💧 Water⇄ 3D version
Roche Limit Rubble Pile: Tidal Break-up in Saturn's Ring Plane (Top View) ↗ Open standalone
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Top-down view of a self-gravitating rubble pile of 201 spheres in the tidal frame of Saturn: it is torn apart below its Roche limit. Same N-body engine and six independent checks as the 3D page, with Blender-rendered ring and rubble art.

Roche limittidal disruptionSaturn ringsrubble pileHill equations

2D · HTML5 Canvas 2D · 60 FPS target · runs fully client-side, no install

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