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Annie Jump Cannon, an Uncommon card
Annie Jump Cannon was an American astronomer whose cataloging work was instrumental in the development of contemporary stellar classification.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 72
- DEF
- 70
- Power
- 142
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 36,000
Power 142 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Annie Jump Cannon quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Annie Jump Cannon card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
She was a ______ and a member of the National Women's Party.
Answer
suffragist. She was a suffragist and a member of the National Women's Party. From the Annie Jump Cannon article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
She was nearly deaf throughout her career after ____, as a result of scarlet fever.
Answer
1890s. She was nearly deaf throughout her career after 1893, as a result of scarlet fever. From the Annie Jump Cannon 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.
- With Edward C. Pickering, she is credited with the creation of the Harvard Classification Scheme, which was the first serious attempt to organize and classify stars based on their temperatures and spectral types.
- She was nearly deaf throughout her career after 1893, as a result of scarlet fever.
- She was a suffragist and a member of the National Women's Party.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Annie Jump Cannon article was read about 36,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 72 and blocks with 70: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Annie Jump Cannon
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Annie Jump Cannon (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
