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Chikyu Earth地球

A line-drawn globe of the world's countries that turns at the Earth's own rate, with an optional realistic Earth from space and markers for any place.

Chikyu is the Japanese word 地球 for the Earth. About the name

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Reference · The Earth-orbit catalogue: orbit class, object kind, colours, fleets and the packed file format (no data)

GEO_ALTITUDE_KMconstant

The height of the geostationary orbit above the equator, in kilometres: the radius of a circular orbit that goes round once a sidereal day (42,164 km) less the equatorial radius (6,378 km). The heights in this module are above the mean Earth radius of 6,371 km, which differs by 7 km, well inside the 1,500 km band.

Import it

import { GEO_ALTITUDE_KM } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/catalogue";

Definition

const GEO_ALTITUDE_KM: 35786 = 35786

Examples

import { GEO_ALTITUDE_KM } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/catalogue";

console.log(GEO_ALTITUDE_KM);
35786

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth 0.51.1.