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Legendary card · Science
Chicxulub crater, a Legendary card
The Chicxulub crater is an impact crater buried underneath the Yucatán Peninsula in Mexico.
- Rarity
- Legendary
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 83
- DEF
- 95
- Power
- 178
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 1,600,000
Ranked #946 of the 3,000 cards of the base set by power (ATK + DEF).
Chicxulub crater quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Chicxulub crater card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The crater is named after the ______ inland community of Chicxulub Pueblo.
Answer
onshore. The crater is named after the onshore inland community of Chicxulub Pueblo. From the Chicxulub crater article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Chicxulub crater. Chicxulub crater 1,600,000 · Aquaculture 85,000 · Modified Newtonian dynamics 55,000 · 10 Hygiea 43,000 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 crater is named after the onshore inland community of Chicxulub Pueblo.
- It was formed slightly over 66 million years ago when an asteroid, about ten kilometers in diameter, struck Earth.
- The crater is estimated to be two hundred kilometers in diameter and is buried to a depth of about one kilometer beneath younger sedimentary rocks.
Why it is Legendary
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Chicxulub crater article was read about 1,600,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 83 and blocks with 95: each hit it takes is cut by 38 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Chicxulub crater (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA/JPL-Caltech, modified b, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
