https://github.com/justingosses/asbigas
A javascript library that returns comparisons for length, height, area, and weight.
https://github.com/justingosses/asbigas
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A javascript library that returns comparisons for length, height, area, and weight.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/justingosses/asbigas
- Owner: JustinGOSSES
- License: mit
- Created: 2021-08-05T02:40:53.000Z (almost 5 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2025-11-30T23:01:34.000Z (7 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-12-25T18:30:45.023Z (6 months ago)
- Language: JavaScript
- Size: 565 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Contributing: CONTRIBUTING.md
- License: LICENSE
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README
# AsBigAs
Kept seeing journalists write headlines about
upcoming asteroid as big as 12 girafes or 52 gorrilas,
so decided to make a little website to automate silly
size comparisons between upcoming asteroids or any asteroid
and arbitrary things.
Original idea to make an API for this can be found
in the [idea.md](./idea.md) file.
## Live site
Page is live at https://justingosses.github.io/AsBigAs/
## Status
Currently just a first draft written in COVID isolation
trying to figure out how much brain power I have back.
## Data
### Asteroid data
#### Nearest astroid
Pulls from the NEO API described on [https://API.nasa.gov](https://API.nasa.gov) to find the asteroid passing most
closely to earth today. The API URL used is something like
`https://api.nasa.gov/neo/rest/v1/feed?start_date=2025-05-28&end_date=2025-05-28&api_key=DEMO_KEY`
For specific astroid lookups, it uses a slightly different
format `https://api.nasa.gov/neo/rest/v1/neo/3542519?api_key=DEMO_KEY`.
#### Find astroid ID
- Go to https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/ca/
- Filter to your asteroid
- Go to its page, such as https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=2025%20WU9
- Find the SPKID, such as 54564352
- Use that ID to look up how big the asteroid is relative to other things on https://justingosses.github.io/AsBigAs/
## Contributing
Contributions are welcome! Want to add your own silly thing to compare asteroids to? We'd love to have it! See our [CONTRIBUTING.md](./CONTRIBUTING.md).