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Comet Hyakutake, an Uncommon card
Comet Hyakutake is a comet discovered on 31 January 1996.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 73
- DEF
- 77
- Power
- 150
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 34,000
Power 150 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 75 % of WikiCards cards.
Comet Hyakutake quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Comet Hyakutake card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The comet temporarily upstaged the much anticipated Comet Hale–Bopp, which was ______ the inner Solar System at the time.
Answer
approaching. The comet temporarily upstaged the much anticipated Comet Hale–Bopp, which was approaching the inner Solar System at the time. From the Comet Hyakutake article on Wikipedia.
In which decade?
Comet Hyakutake is a comet discovered on 31 January ____.
Answer
1990s. Comet Hyakutake is a comet discovered on 31 January 1996. From the Comet Hyakutake article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Derek Warwick. Derek Warwick 80 · Photojournalism 77 · Comet Hyakutake 73 · Copper(II) chloride 69 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.
- It was dubbed the Great Comet of 1996, its passage to within 0.1 AU of the Earth on 25 March was one of the closest cometary approaches of the previous 200 years.
- Reaching an apparent visual magnitude of zero and spanning nearly 80°, Hyakutake appeared very bright in the night sky and was widely seen around the world.
- The comet temporarily upstaged the much anticipated Comet Hale–Bopp, which was approaching the inner Solar System at the time.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Comet Hyakutake article was read about 34,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 73 and blocks with 77: each hit it takes is cut by 31 %.
How to get Comet Hyakutake
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Comet Hyakutake (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : E. Kolmhofer, H. Raab, Johannes-Kepler-Observatory, Linz, Austria ( http://www.sternwarte., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
