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Rare card · Science
1I/ʻOumuamua, a Rare card
1I/ʻOumuamua is the first confirmed interstellar object detected passing through the Solar System.
- Rarity
- Rare
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 88
- DEF
- 99
- Power
- 187
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 270,000
Ranked #331 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
1I/ʻOumuamua quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the 1I/ʻOumuamua card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It has a red color, like ______ in the outer Solar System.
Answer
objects. It has a red color, like objects in the outer Solar System. From the 1I/ʻOumuamua article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Cro-Magnon. Cro-Magnon 370,000 · 1I/ʻOumuamua 270,000 · Robert H. Goddard 160,000 · Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women 110,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Formally designated 1I/2017 U1, it was discovered by Canadian physicist Robert Weryk using the Pan-STARRS telescope at Haleakalā Observatory, Hawaii, on 19 October 2017, approximately 40 days after it passed its closest point to the Sun on 9 September.
- When it was first observed, it was about 33 million km from Earth and already heading away from the Sun. ʻOumuamua is a small object estimated to be between 100 and 1,000 metres long, with its width and thickness both estimated between 35 and 167 metres.
- It has a red color, like objects in the outer Solar System.
Why it is Rare
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The 1I/ʻOumuamua article was read about 270,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 88 and blocks with 99: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get 1I/ʻOumuamua
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, 1I/ʻOumuamua (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Alan Fitzsimmons ( Astrophysics Research Centre , Queen's University Belfast ), Isaac Newt, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
