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4 Vesta, an Uncommon card
Vesta is one of the objects in the asteroid belt, with a mean diameter of 525 kilometres.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 86
- DEF
- 96
- Power
- 182
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 190,000
Ranked #657 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
4 Vesta quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the 4 Vesta card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Vesta is thought to be the second-largest ______, both by mass and by volume, after the dwarf planet Ceres.
Answer
asteroid. Vesta is thought to be the second-largest asteroid, both by mass and by volume, after the dwarf planet Ceres. From the 4 Vesta article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
It was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers on 29 March ____ and is named after Vesta, the virgin goddess of home and hearth from Roman mythology.
Answer
1800s. It was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers on 29 March 1807 and is named after Vesta, the virgin goddess of home and hearth from Roman mythology. From the 4 Vesta article on Wikipedia.
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.
- It was discovered by the German astronomer Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers on 29 March 1807 and is named after Vesta, the virgin goddess of home and hearth from Roman mythology.
- Vesta is thought to be the second-largest asteroid, both by mass and by volume, after the dwarf planet Ceres.
- Measurements give it a nominal volume only slightly larger than that of Pallas, but it is 25% to 30% more massive.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The 4 Vesta article was read about 190,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 86 and blocks with 96: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, 4 Vesta (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA / JPL / MPS / DLR / IDA / Björn Jónsson, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
