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Edward Charles Pickering, a Common card
Edward Charles Pickering was an American astronomer and physicist and the older brother of William Henry Pickering.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 69
- DEF
- 69
- Power
- 138
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,400
Power 138 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Edward Charles Pickering quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Edward Charles Pickering card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He wrote Elements of ______ Manipulations.
Answer
Physical. He wrote Elements of Physical Manipulations. From the Edward Charles Pickering article on Wikipedia.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Harry Johnston. Harry Johnston 8,400 · Edward Charles Pickering 6,400 · 2015 Canning by-election 3,000 · SS Peveril 540 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.
- Along with Carl Vogel, Pickering discovered the first spectroscopic binary stars.
- He wrote Elements of Physical Manipulations.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Edward Charles Pickering article was read about 6,400 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 69 and blocks with 69: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Edward Charles Pickering (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown (Mondadori Publishers), Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
