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Uncommon card · Science
2012 transit of Venus, an Uncommon card
The 2012 transit of Venus, when the planet Venus appeared as a small, dark spot passing across the face of the Sun, began at 22:09 UTC on 5 June 2012, and finished at 04:49 UTC on 6 June.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 60
- DEF
- 50
- Power
- 110
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 15,000
Power 110 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Depending on the position of the observer, the exact times varied by up to ±7 minutes.
- Transits of Venus are among the rarest of predictable celestial phenomena and occur in pairs.
- Consecutive transits per pair are spaced 8 years apart, and consecutive pairs occur more than a century apart: The previous transit of Venus took place on 8 June 2004, the next pair of transits will occur on 10–11 December 2117 and December 2125 within the 22nd century.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The 2012 transit of Venus article was read about 15,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 60 and blocks with 50: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, 2012 transit of Venus (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA/SDO, AIA, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.
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