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Wakusei Planets惑星

The Sun, the planets and their moons as a clean line drawing, a shaded realistic drawing or a painted surface map, with real sizes, tilt and rotation, and the moons where they are at any date and time.

Wakusei is the Japanese word 惑星 for a planet. About the name

Contents

Reference · Facts, line drawings and positions

LineupTexttype

What the line-up says about one body, in words.

Import it

import type { LineupText } from "@johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets";

Definition

interface LineupText {
    name: string;
    radius: string;
    km: string;
    source: string;
    method: string;
    note: string;
    estimated: boolean;
}

Members

NameTypeDescription
namestring
radiusstring

1,057 Suns (+228 −162), or in Japanese 太陽の1,057倍 (+228 −162).

kmstring

735 million km.

sourcestring

The source, short, and estimated where the size is not measured.

methodstring

How the radius was got, one sentence. Empty for a planet.

notestring

What the literature disagrees about, if it does.

estimatedboolean

True when the size is estimated (from brightness, or from a distance that is not a parallax), not measured.

Examples

import { lineupBodies, lineupText, type LineupText } from "@johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets";

const text: LineupText = lineupText(lineupBodies().find((body) => body.id === "betelgeuse")!, "en");
console.log(text.radius, text.km);
1,057 Suns (+228 −162) 735 million km

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets 0.29.0.