Every number on these cards was read from the JPL Small-Body Database on 1 October 2026. Nothing here is invented. Cards 1 to 15 are the rarity ladder, rarest first. Cards 16 to 20 are the controls: famous objects that are Common under this design precisely because humanity has looked at them thousands of times.
The orbit is stroked with one mark per observation, up to 140, after which the marks merge into a solid line. That is the rarity, drawn from the data rather than decorated on top of it.
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Prints 3 across at 63 x 88 mm. Cut along the borders. · See the full deck, 5,020 cards