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🌑 Roche Limit Lab — 2D Orbit View and Tidal Breakup

2D companion of the Roche limit simulator: a top-down orbit view with rigid and fluid Roche circles, tidal stretching and debris ring formation, tidal-versus-self-gravity and limit-versus-density graphs, and numerical checks.

Physics & Mechanics2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version
Roche Limit Lab — 2D Orbit View and Tidal Breakup ↗ Open standalone
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2D companion of the Roche limit simulator: a top-down orbit view with rigid and fluid Roche circles, tidal stretching and debris ring formation, tidal-versus-self-gravity and limit-versus-density graphs, and numerical checks.

Roche limittidal forcesorbital mechanicsplanetary rings

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

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