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Antonia Maury, a Common card
Antonia Caetana de Paiva Pereira Maury was an American astronomer who was the first to detect and calculate the orbit of a spectroscopic binary.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 56
- Power
- 123
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,800
Power 123 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 60 % of WikiCards cards.
Antonia Maury quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Antonia Maury card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
She also spent many years studying the ______ star Beta Lyrae.
Answer
binary. She also spent many years studying the binary star Beta Lyrae. From the Antonia Maury article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Diana. Diana 73 · Antonia Maury 67 · Intersex rights in Malta 64 · Mars flyby 59 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.
- She published an important early catalog of stellar spectra using her own system of stellar classification, which was later adopted by the International Astronomical Union.
- She also spent many years studying the binary star Beta Lyrae.
- Maury was part of the Harvard Computers, a group of female astronomers and human computers at the Harvard College Observatory.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Antonia Maury article was read about 4,800 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 56: each hit it takes is cut by 22 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Antonia Maury (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Vassar College, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
