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Asteroid family, a Common card
An asteroid family is a population of asteroids that share similar proper orbital elements, such as semi-major axis, eccentricity, and orbital inclination.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 81
- Power
- 162
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 15,000
Ranked #1,706 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Asteroid family quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Asteroid family card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Large prominent families contain several hundred ______ asteroids.
Answer
recognized. Large prominent families contain several hundred recognized asteroids. From the Asteroid family article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Asteroid family. Asteroid family 81 · 1980 October Surprise theory 78 · Box lacrosse 74 · THAP3 71 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
1980 October Surprise theory. 1980 October Surprise theory 59,000 · Box lacrosse 44,000 · Asteroid family 15,000 · Asteroids in fiction 6,000 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 members of the families are thought to be fragments of past asteroid collisions.
- An asteroid family is a more specific term than asteroid group, whose members, while sharing some broad orbital characteristics, may be otherwise unrelated to each other.
- Large prominent families contain several hundred recognized asteroids.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Asteroid family article was read about 15,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 81 and blocks with 81: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Asteroid family
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Asteroid family (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : User:Renerpho, The original uploader was Dreg743 at English Wikipedia . This 2007 version, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
