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🌙 Tidal Locking — 2D Despinning Moon and Roche Limit

2D top-down companion of the tidal locking sim: constant-Q tidal torque on a moon, despin to synchronous rotation with a closed-form locking time that scales as the cube of the orbital distance, real orbital period from Kepler's third law and the rigid-body Roche limit.

Space & Astronomy2DModerate60 FPS📱 Mobile-adapted⇄ 3D version
Tidal Locking — 2D Despinning Moon and Roche Limit ↗ Open standalone
⚙ Under the hood

2D top-down companion of the tidal locking sim: constant-Q tidal torque on a moon, despin to synchronous rotation with a closed-form locking time that scales as the cube of the orbital distance, real orbital period from Kepler's third law and the rigid-body Roche limit.

Tidal LockingRoche LimitSynchronous RotationTidal Dissipation

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

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