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🪐 Gravity Orbit
Planetary gravitational slingshot. Latch onto planetary gravitational fields, orbit to build momentum, and launch at the perfect angle to reach the next planet.
Free to play in your browser: no download and no account needed. The game opens on this page.
- Type
- Physics
- Difficulty
- Hard
- Round length
- 25–45s
- Ages
- 6+
- Controls
- Hold to Orbit • Release to Slingshot
What it practises
- Concepts & theory: The science and maths behind the game: reflection, orbits, waves, circuits, ciphers.
- Problem-solving & planning: Planning ahead, switching strategies and working out cause and effect.
Playing rarely teaches the idea behind the game on its own, so every concept game comes with a brief and a check question.
Quick lesson: Gravity and orbits
Gravity always pulls towards the planet. Move sideways fast enough and you keep falling around it instead of into it — that is an orbit.
Check question
You move to twice the distance from a planet’s centre. Its gravitational pull on you becomes…
- Twice as strong
- Half as strong
- A quarter as strong
- Unchanged
Answer: A quarter as strong. Gravity follows an inverse-square law: double the distance, 1/2² = 1/4 of the pull.
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