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Uncommon card · Science
Hour angle, an Uncommon card
In astronomy and celestial navigation, the hour angle is the dihedral angle between the meridian plane and the hour circle.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 50
- DEF
- 24
- Power
- 74
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 18,000
Power 74 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 15 % of WikiCards cards.
Hour angle quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Hour angle card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The angle may be ______ in degrees or in time, with 24h = 360° exactly.
Answer
measured. The angle may be measured in degrees or in time, with 24h = 360° exactly. From the Hour angle article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Giovanni Arrighi. Giovanni Arrighi 58 · Hour angle 50 · Leica III 46 · List of airlines of Vietnam 43 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 may be given in degrees, time, or rotations depending on the application.
- The angle may be expressed as negative east of the meridian plane and positive west of the meridian plane, or as positive westward from 0° to 360°.
- The angle may be measured in degrees or in time, with 24h = 360° exactly.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Hour angle article was read about 18,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 50 and blocks with 24: each hit it takes is cut by 10 %.
How to get Hour angle
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.
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The cards just above and just below Hour angle in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Curtis JoblingUncommon · Arts · ATK 48 DEF 26
- Dersu UzalaUncommon · History · ATK 46 DEF 28
- Giovanni ArrighiUncommon · Science · ATK 58 DEF 16
- List of airlines of VietnamUncommon · Society · ATK 43 DEF 31
- Pauline privilegeUncommon · Society · ATK 49 DEF 25
- South Central CartelUncommon · Arts · ATK 54 DEF 20
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Hour angle (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Sch, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
