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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

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Reference · Printable colouring sheets for children: the Sun, the planets and the big moons as thick-line pictures with the real colours and three facts, and all the planets in a row at one scale, in English and Japanese

kidsFactsfunction

The three facts on a body's sheet, in plain words, worked out from the package's numbers: its width and how it compares with Earth, how long it takes to spin and to go round, and for a moon the face it shows.

Import it

import { kidsFacts } from "@johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets/sheets";

Definition

function kidsFacts(id: KidsBody, lang?: Lang): string[]

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
id"sun" | "mercury" | "venus" | "earth" | "mars" | "jupiter" | "saturn" | "uranus" | "neptune" | "pluto" | "moon" | "io" | "europa" | "ganymede" | "callisto" | "titan" | "triton" | "charon"

A body with a sheet.

lang (optional)Lang

en or ja.

Returns

string[]

Three short sentences.

Examples

import { kidsFacts } from "@johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets/sheets";

console.log(kidsFacts("jupiter", "en"));
[
  '143,000 km across: 11 times as wide as Earth.',
  'It spins once in 9.9 hours.',
  'It goes around the Sun in 12 years.'
]

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets 0.24.0.