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Uncommon card · Science
Centaur, an Uncommon card
In planetary astronomy, a centaur is a small Solar System body that orbits the Sun between Jupiter and Neptune and crosses the orbits of one or more of the giant planets.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 75
- DEF
- 80
- Power
- 155
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 51,000
Power 155 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 80 % of WikiCards cards.
Centaur quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Centaur card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Centaurs typically exhibit the ______ of both asteroids and comets.
Answer
characteristics. Centaurs typically exhibit the characteristics of both asteroids and comets. From the Centaur article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Refrigeration. Refrigeration 83 · Ibn Hazm 80 · Centaur 75 · László Moholy-Nagy 71 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.
- Centaurs generally have unstable orbits because of this, almost all of their orbits have dynamic lifetimes of only a few million years, but there is one known centaur, 514107 Kaʻepaokaʻāwela, whose orbit may be stable.
- Centaurs typically exhibit the characteristics of both asteroids and comets.
- They are named after the mythological centaurs that were a mixture of horse and human.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Centaur article was read about 51,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 75 and blocks with 80: each hit it takes is cut by 32 %.
How to get Centaur
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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- Robert FitzRoyUncommon · History · ATK 77 DEF 78
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Centaur (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : WilyD at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
