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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 · Where the Sun, Moon and planets are for a date, in two scales, with the camera maths

EARTH_RADIUS_KMconstant

The Earth's equatorial radius in kilometres (IAU), the unit of the scene's distances.

Import it

import { EARTH_RADIUS_KM } from "@johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets/space";

Definition

const EARTH_RADIUS_KM: 6378.137 = 6378.137

Examples

import { EARTH_RADIUS_KM } from "@johnmorrisdotca/wakusei-planets/space";

console.log(EARTH_RADIUS_KM);
6378.137

What it prints (run when this page was built)

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