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Sandra Faber, a Common card
Sandra Moore Faber is an American astrophysicist known for her research on the evolution of galaxies.
- Rarity
- Common
- Domain
- Science
- ATK
- 64
- DEF
- 53
- Power
- 117
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 6,100
Power 117 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
Sandra Faber quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Sandra Faber card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Faber was also ______ in designing the Keck telescopes in Hawaii.
Answer
instrumental. Faber was also instrumental in designing the Keck telescopes in Hawaii. From the Sandra Faber article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Rabies in Haiti. Rabies in Haiti 74 · Ingeborg Hochmair 71 · Sandra Faber 64 · Grote Reber 61 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.
- She is the University Professor emerita of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and works at the Lick Observatory.
- She has made discoveries linking the brightness of galaxies to the speed of stars within them and was the co-discoverer of the Faber–Jackson relation.
- Faber was also instrumental in designing the Keck telescopes in Hawaii.
Why it is Common
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Sandra Faber article was read about 6,100 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 53: each hit it takes is cut by 21 %.
How to get Sandra Faber
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Sandra Faber (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : U.S. White House / U.S. government, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
