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Kappa Mensae, a Common card
Kappa Mensae, Latinized from κ Mensae, is a solitary star in the southern circumpolar constellation Mensa.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 52
- DEF
- 33
- Power
- 85
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 280
Power 85 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 25 % of WikiCards cards.
Kappa Mensae quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Kappa Mensae card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
However, it is receding from the Sun with a ______ radial velocity of 9.5 km/s.
Answer
heliocentric. However, it is receding from the Sun with a heliocentric radial velocity of 9.5 km/s. From the Kappa Mensae article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Henri Nestlé. Henri Nestlé 55 · Kappa Mensae 52 · Mamie S. Barrett 45 · CTTNBP2 40 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Antagonist. Antagonist 170,000 · Mamie S. Barrett 460 · Kappa Mensae 280 · Evgeny Pokushalov 210 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.
- Its distance of 296 light years based on its parallax shift gives it an apparent magnitude of 5.45, making it faintly visible to the naked eye.
- However, it is receding from the Sun with a heliocentric radial velocity of 9.5 km/s.
- Kappa Mensae has a stellar classification of B9 V, indicating that it is an ordinary B-type main-sequence star.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Kappa Mensae article was read about 280 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 52 and blocks with 33: each hit it takes is cut by 13 %.
How to get Kappa Mensae
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 Kappa Mensae in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Georges MeurisCommon · Society · ATK 49 DEF 36
- Pachymetopon aeneumCommon · Nature · ATK 45 DEF 40
- CTTNBP2Common · Science · ATK 40 DEF 45
- Maria OrsettiCommon · History · ATK 53 DEF 32
- Yana PsailaCommon · Arts · ATK 52 DEF 33
- ŠmigovecCommon · Society · ATK 40 DEF 45
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Kappa Mensae (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : IAU and Sky & Telescope magazine (Roger Sinnott & Rick Fienberg), CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
