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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 · /meteors

parentBodyOffunction

The parent body of a shower, found by the shower's IAU code, as the IAU Meteor Data Center's origin column names it.

Import it

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

Definition

function parentBodyOf(code: string): ParentBody | null

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
codestring

The IAU's three-letter code (PER).

Returns

ParentBody | null

The comet or asteroid, or null when the shower has none named (or the code is not in the table).

Examples

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

console.log(parentBodyOf("PER")?.designation, parentBodyOf("GEM")?.kind, parentBodyOf("COM"));
109P/Swift-Tuttle asteroid null

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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