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Eugene Parker, an Uncommon card
Eugene Newman Parker was an American solar and plasma physicist, often called the "father" and "founder" of heliophysics.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 76
- DEF
- 98
- Power
- 174
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 32,000
Power 174 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 90 % of WikiCards cards.
Eugene Parker quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Eugene Parker card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
In 1988, he proposed that nanoflares could explain the coronal heating problem, a theory that remains a ______ candidate.
Answer
leading. In 1988, he proposed that nanoflares could explain the coronal heating problem, a theory that remains a leading candidate. From the Eugene Parker article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
COVID-19 vaccination in the United States. COVID-19 vaccination in the United States 90 · Hernando de Soto 86 · Genomics 82 · Eugene Parker 76 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Genomics. Genomics 44,000 · Eugene Parker 32,000 · Atmosphere of Pluto 22,000 · Nicolas Fatio de Duillier 17,000 Wikipedia reads over a year.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- In 1958, he proposed the existence of the solar wind and predicted that the magnetic field in the outer Solar System would be in the shape of a Parker spiral, predictions initially rejected by reviewers and scientific community, but quickly confirmed by the Mariner 2 spacecraft in 1962.
- Multiple phenomena in solar and plasma physics bear his name, including the Parker instability, Parker equation, Sweet–Parker model of magnetic reconnection, Parker limit on magnetic monopoles, and Parker theorem.
- In 1988, he proposed that nanoflares could explain the coronal heating problem, a theory that remains a leading candidate.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Eugene Parker article was read about 32,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 76 and blocks with 98: each hit it takes is cut by 39 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Eugene Parker (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio - KBR Wyle Services, LLC/Joy Ng, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
