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Maria Cunitz, a Common card
Maria Cunitz or Maria Cunitia was an accomplished Silesian astronomer, and the most notable female astronomer of the early modern era.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 67
- DEF
- 64
- Power
- 131
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,400
Power 131 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 65 % of WikiCards cards.
Maria Cunitz quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Maria Cunitz card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
The Cunitz ______ on Venus is named after her.
Answer
crater. The Cunitz crater on Venus is named after her. From the Maria Cunitz article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Jesse Little. Jesse Little 75 · Anders Tegnell 70 · Maria Cunitz 67 · First Illinois Constitutional Convention 64 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Anders Tegnell. Anders Tegnell 6,600 · Maria Cunitz 4,400 · Hu Xiansu 2,900 · Edmund Jaeger 1,700 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.
- She authored a book Urania propitia, in which she provided new tables, new ephemera, and a simpler working solution to Kepler's second law for determining the position of a planet on its elliptical path.
- The Cunitz crater on Venus is named after her.
- The minor planet 12624 Mariacunitia is named in her honour.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Maria Cunitz article was read about 4,400 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 67 and blocks with 64: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
How to get Maria Cunitz
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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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Maria Cunitz (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Sueroski, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons.
