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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

Contents

Reference · /meteors

ParentBodytype

The comet or asteroid a shower's meteors come from, as the IAU Meteor Data Center names it.

Import it

import type { ParentBody } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/meteors";

Definition

interface ParentBody {
    designation: string;
    kind: "comet" | "asteroid";
}

Members

NameTypeDescription
designationstring

The designation as the MDC writes it: 109P/Swift-Tuttle, C/1861 G1 (Thatcher), (3200) Phaethon, 2003 EH1.

kind"comet" | "asteroid"

Examples

import { METEOR_LINKS } from "@johnmorrisdotca/chikyu-earth/meteors";

const parent = METEOR_LINKS.find((link) => link.code === "PER")?.parent;
console.log(parent?.designation, parent?.kind);
109P/Swift-Tuttle comet

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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