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Urbain Le Verrier, an Uncommon card
Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier was a French astronomer and mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and is best known for predicting the existence and position of Neptune using only mathematics.
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 65
- DEF
- 49
- Power
- 114
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 26,000
Power 114 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 55 % of WikiCards cards.
The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- The calculations were made to explain discrepancies with Uranus's orbit and the laws of Johannes Kepler and Isaac Newton.
- Le Verrier sent the coordinates to Johann Gottfried Galle in Berlin, asking him to verify.
- Galle found Neptune the same night he received Le Verrier's letter, within 1° of the predicted position.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Urbain Le Verrier article was read about 26,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 65 and blocks with 49: each hit it takes is cut by 20 %.
How to get Urbain Le Verrier
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Urbain Le Verrier (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Unknown author Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons.
