Mato (xholm)

Race #342

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Official speed 44.97 wpm (94.73 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start April 7, 2018 11:29:16am UTC
Race Finish April 7, 2018 11:30:50am UTC
Outcome No win (4 of 4)
Opponents 2. janan222 (56.64 wpm)
Accuracy 96.0%
Points 43.47
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If an exoplanet happens to transit its star, we can often determine both its mass and its radius, and hence estimate its density and possibly even its composition. More than 200 transiting hot Jupiters have been measured in this way. But when astronomers calculate their densities the numbers they obtain are generally much lower than predicted by theory.