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Legendary card · Science
3I/ATLAS, a Legendary card
3I/ATLAS, also known as C/2025 N1 and previously as A11pl3Z, is an interstellar comet discovered on 1 July 2025 by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System station.
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 89
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 189
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 2,600,000
Ranked #194 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
3I/ATLAS quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the 3I/ATLAS card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The comet follows an ______, hyperbolic trajectory past the Sun, and passed by Earth at 1.8 AU, posing no threat.
Answer
unbound. The comet follows an unbound, hyperbolic trajectory past the Sun, and passed by Earth at 1.8 AU, posing no threat. From the 3I/ATLAS article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
3I/ATLAS. 3I/ATLAS 2,600,000 · Aluminium 630,000 · Alcoholism 370,000 · Antibiotic 250,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
In a duel, each round asks a question like these about the opposing card, with 15 seconds to answer.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The comet follows an unbound, hyperbolic trajectory past the Sun, and passed by Earth at 1.8 AU, posing no threat.
- The prefix "3I" designates it as the third confirmed interstellar object passing through the Solar System, after 1I/ʻOumuamua and 2I/Borisov.
- 3I/ATLAS is an active comet consisting of a solid icy nucleus and a coma, which is a cloud of gas and icy dust escaping from the nucleus.
Why it is Legendary
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The 3I/ATLAS article was read about 2,600,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 89 and blocks with 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get 3I/ATLAS
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, 3I/ATLAS (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/B. Bolin Image Processing: J. Miller & M, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
