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Uncommon card · Science
Beta Pictoris, an Uncommon card
Beta Pictoris is the second brightest star in the constellation Pictor.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 81
- DEF
- 100
- Power
- 181
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 27,000
Ranked #781 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Beta Pictoris quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Beta Pictoris card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It is located 63.4 light-years from the Solar System, and is 1.79 times as massive and 8.7 times as ______ as the Sun.
Answer
luminous. It is located 63.4 light-years from the Solar System, and is 1.79 times as massive and 8.7 times as luminous as the Sun. From the Beta Pictoris article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
C. S. Lewis. C. S. Lewis 1,500,000 · Anaerobic digestion 57,000 · Discovery of the neutron 42,000 · Beta Pictoris 27,000 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.
- It is located 63.4 light-years from the Solar System, and is 1.79 times as massive and 8.7 times as luminous as the Sun.
- The Beta Pictoris system is very young, only 23 million years old, although it is already in the main sequence stage of its evolution.
- Beta Pictoris is the title member of the Beta Pictoris moving group, an association of young stars which share the same motion through space and have the same age.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Beta Pictoris article was read about 27,000 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 100: each hit it takes is cut by 40 %.
How to get Beta Pictoris
Open packs. Each pack holds five cards drawn from real Wikipedia articles, the rarest last, and the fifth card is always Rare or better. The odds are shown in the game. A free pack arrives every hour and two can wait, and the Coins you win in duels buy more packs.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Beta Pictoris (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Pictor_constellation_map.png : Torsten Bronger derivative work: Kxx ( talk ), CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
