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Uncommon card · Science
486958 Arrokoth, an Uncommon card
486958 Arrokoth is a small, icy Kuiper belt object orbiting the Sun beyond Neptune and Pluto.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 89
- DEF
- 90
- Power
- 179
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 130,000
Ranked #920 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
486958 Arrokoth quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the 486958 Arrokoth card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Arrokoth is a contact binary, a "snowman"-shaped object composed of two lobes connected by a narrow neck of ______.
Answer
material. Arrokoth is a contact binary, a "snowman"-shaped object composed of two lobes connected by a narrow neck of material. From the 486958 Arrokoth article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
It became the farthest object in the Solar System visited by a spacecraft when the NASA space probe New Horizons flew past it on 1 January ____.
Answer
2010s. It became the farthest object in the Solar System visited by a spacecraft when the NASA space probe New Horizons flew past it on 1 January 2019. From the 486958 Arrokoth article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Bertie Ahern. Bertie Ahern 92 · 486958 Arrokoth 89 · Cross-dressing 86 · Ramanuja 79 ATK in WikiCards.
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 became the farthest object in the Solar System visited by a spacecraft when the NASA space probe New Horizons flew past it on 1 January 2019.
- Arrokoth was discovered on 26 June 2014 by astronomer Marc Buie and the New Horizons Search Team, who had been using the Hubble Space Telescope to find Kuiper belt objects that New Horizons could visit.
- Arrokoth is a contact binary, a "snowman"-shaped object composed of two lobes connected by a narrow neck of material.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The 486958 Arrokoth article was read about 130,000 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 90: each hit it takes is cut by 36 %.
How to get 486958 Arrokoth
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, 486958 Arrokoth (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI/Roman Tkachenko, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
