WikiCards
Play on iPhone nowFree in Safari. Add it to your Home Screen.Play
WikiCards · Card list · Science cards · Fred Lawrence Whipple
Common card · Science
Fred Lawrence Whipple, a Common card
Fred Lawrence Whipple was an American astronomer, who worked at the Harvard College Observatory for more than 70 years.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 68
- DEF
- 69
- Power
- 137
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 5,000
Power 137 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- Among his achievements were asteroid and comet discoveries, the "dirty snowball" hypothesis of comets, and the invention of the Whipple shield.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Fred Lawrence Whipple article was read about 5,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 68 and blocks with 69: each hit it takes is cut by 28 %.
How to get Fred Lawrence Whipple
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.
More Science cards
Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below Fred Lawrence Whipple in the power ranking, all domains together.
- SimurrumCommon · Society · ATK 67 DEF 70
- Seatrain LinesCommon · Society · ATK 72 DEF 65
- Le Grand-SaconnexCommon · Society · ATK 67 DEF 70
- Germany–Ukraine relationsCommon · History · ATK 67 DEF 70
- List of birds of the BahamasCommon · Nature · ATK 76 DEF 61
- René Just HaüyCommon · Science · ATK 67 DEF 70
Card lists
- Wikipedia quizNew questions every day
- All cards from A to ZEvery card, by name
- Science cards
- Legendary cards
- Tier listS and A tiers by power (ATK + DEF)
Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Fred Lawrence Whipple (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Rights NRAO/AUI/NSF Photographer Woodruff T. Sullivan III Photo Credit NRAO/AUI Archives, , CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
.jpg){kind=link}