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Peter van de Kamp, a Common card
Piet van de Kamp was a Dutch astronomer.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 63
- DEF
- 48
- Power
- 111
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 4,700
Power 111 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 50 % of WikiCards cards.
Peter van de Kamp quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Peter van de Kamp card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
He ______ in astrometry, studying parallax and proper motions of stars.
Answer
specialized. He specialized in astrometry, studying parallax and proper motions of stars. From the Peter van de Kamp article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
2018 Bathurst 1000. 2018 Bathurst 1000 72 · Suri Sehgal 69 · Peter van de Kamp 63 · Abu al-Wafa' al-Buzjani 59 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.
- Known as Peter van de Kamp in the United States, he lived most of his life in that country.
- He was professor of astronomy at Swarthmore College and director of the college's Sproul Observatory from 1937 until 1972.
- He specialized in astrometry, studying parallax and proper motions of stars.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Peter van de Kamp article was read about 4,700 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 63 and blocks with 48: each hit it takes is cut by 19 %.
How to get Peter van de Kamp
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Peter van de Kamp (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Rochester Institute of Technology, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
