The Kugel Ball is a sculpture consisting of a large granite ball supported by a very thin film of water. With this installation the pump can be turned off resulting in an instant halt to the spinning sphere.
The sphere is located at SkyHigh Mount Dandenong. Please note there is an entry fee per car.
Gates open Monday to Friday 10am-10pm Gates open Weekends 8am-10.30pm.
It is open all year round.
Granite is a common type of felsic intrusive igneous rock which is granular and phaneritic in texture. The word "granite" comes from the Latin granum, a grain, in reference to the coarse-grained structure of such a holocrystalline rock. The term 'granite' also applies to a group of intrusive igneous rocks with similar textures and slight variations on composition and origin. These rocks mainly consist of feldspar, quartz, mica, and amphibole minerals, which form interlocking, somewhat equigranular matrix of feldspar and quartz with scattered darker biotite mica and amphibole (often hornblende) peppering the lighter color minerals. Occasionally some individual crystals (phenocrysts) are larger than the groundmass, in which case the texture is known as porphyritic. A granitic rock with a porphyritic texture is known as a granite porphyry. Granites can be predominantly white, pink, or gray in color, depending on their mineralogy. By definition, granite is an igneous rock with at least 20% quartz and up to 65% alkali feldspar by volume. Granite differs from granodiorite in that at least 35% of the feldspar in granite is alkali feldspar as opposed to plagioclase; it is the potassium feldspar that gives many granites a distinctive pink color.
Granite spheres are made by sand blasting a basin in a rectangle of rock and sand blasting a perfect sphere to fit into it. Then water is pushed up to hold the sphere up. The ball can then be spun easily.
Q1 What is the scultpure's total weight and ball weight?
Q2 Describe the colours and the texture of the ball in your own words.
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