Dr. Wondertainment's Marvelous Multiplying Ball™
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Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures:
SCP-XXXX is to be stored in a steel case secured with biometric authenication system, located in a room equipped with flame-throwers and directional claymore mines, that are to be activated in the case of any unforeseen consequences regarding the containment of the object. In the event of any large-scale breach of the facilities, the case is to be submerged in quick-dry cement immediately.

The object is by no means to be handled, touched, or played with by any personnel outside of an experiment. If the object is to be moved to another area, for the purposes of an experiment or because of a security breach, it is to be contained in said steel case at all times.

Description:
SCP-XXXX is a 15 centimeter red ball with a yellow star and a “Dr. Wondertainment” sticker. Although we may assume that, because of the elastic potential and the general texture of the material of the object that the ball is made of some kind of foreign plastic, The Foundation cannot identify the specific material as the ball is functionally indestructible, and any attempts to remove sample pieces from the object has been unsuccessful. Samples of SCP-XXXX-1 have however shown to be composed of average, widespread rubber, and not unlike any other average toy ball.

SCP-XXXX’s anomalous abilities manifest only when it is moved on its own (that is to say that a direct force applied to the object, which produces directional locomotion), whereupon it will create an instance of SCP-XXXX-1 for every 1 millimetre traveled. These instances are exactly identical to SCP-XXXX, down to their anomalous properties, but can be destroyed by any force sufficient enough to destroy a normal ball.

As of the time of writing of this article, there is no known limit to the number of balls generated through this process, and any attempt to precisely determine this limit through mathematical formula have resulted in failures, going as far as to predict a maximum number of balls that would outnumber the amount of atoms in the known universe three-to-one.

All further testing is prohibited as of ██/██/19██, when a D-class personnel accidentally dropped SCP-XXXX, which resulted in the creation of approximately ████████ instances of SCP-XXXX-1, the death of ██ personnel, and the subsequent shut-down of Sector-██.

History:
SCP-XXXX was obtained by Mobile Task-Force Mu-3, "Highest Bidders" from an online 'Marshall, Carter & Dark Ltd' auction, where it was made available for purchase to the public. As of the writing of this article, the Foundation does not know whether there are any other instances of SCP-XXXX or SCP-XXXX-1, or whether any more instances are currently in production.

Addendum XXXX-1:
Instances of SCP-XXXX-1 seem to be able to overlap with SCP-XXXX when first created, but are then unable to overlap again once they have entirely passed the 15 centimeter diameter of the original object.

Addendum XXXX-2:
Extensive research has demonstrated that SCP-XXXX's abilities do not manifest when the object is stored in a moving container, possibly as a result of the fact that no direct force is applied onto SCP-XXXX. This has been demonstrated to be true with containers as thin as 0.5 millimetres, although evidence suggests that any container prevents the anomalous abilities.