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NGC 5238, a Common card
NGC 5238 is an irregular galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 51
- Power
- 115
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 620
Power 115 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
NGC 5238 quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the NGC 5238 card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
It has sometimes been ______ as a blue compact dwarf galaxy.
Answer
classified. It has sometimes been classified as a blue compact dwarf galaxy. From the NGC 5238 article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Jensen's inequality. Jensen's inequality 70 · NGC 5238 64 · Beaumaris Lifeboat Station 60 · Filamin-A 57 ATK in WikiCards.
Which of these Wikipedia articles is read the most in a year?
Answer
Jensen's inequality. Jensen's inequality 190,000 · Boiling point 140,000 · Homeobox protein MSX-1 1,100 · NGC 5238 620 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.
- Located at a comoving distance of 4.51 Mpc, it is 64.4 arcseconds in diameter.
- It has sometimes been classified as a blue compact dwarf galaxy.
- Although some authors have hypothesized it to be a member of the M101 Group of galaxies, it is currently believed to be an isolated galaxy.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The NGC 5238 article was read about 620 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 64 and blocks with 51: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get NGC 5238
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Cards close in power
The cards just above and just below NGC 5238 in the power ranking, all domains together.
- Birdie BlyeCommon · Science · ATK 58 DEF 57
- East BuildingCommon · Arts · ATK 62 DEF 53
- Beaumaris Lifeboat StationCommon · Society · ATK 60 DEF 55
- Carpentersville Middle SchoolCommon · Society · ATK 60 DEF 55
- Irina MashinskiCommon · Arts · ATK 63 DEF 52
- Mir-375Common · Science · ATK 63 DEF 52
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, NGC 5238 (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : ESA/Hubble & NASA, F. Annibali, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
