What is new in Buckyball Google Doodle?
Google celebrates the 25th anniversary of Buckyball discovery by replacing the middle “O” of Google with animated Buckyball. If you remain a little bit longer on Google homepage, you will find many interesting things of Buckyball Google Doddle.
Buckyball in the Google logo gives response to the mouse movement over it. Any movement of mouse over the Buckyball rolls the ball in the direction of mouse pointer. Unlike, the Google Doodle of Pac Man game, Buckyball Google Doodle does not utilize the Flash animation technology.
There are many other organizations which are also honoring the Buckyball. Rice University will be celebrating the Buckyball’s 25th Discovery Day in October 2010.
According to Wikipedia, “Buckminsterfullerene” is the official name of Buckyball. It is spherical chemical component of 60 carbon atoms therefore it is also referred as C60.