Tahsin (mrtek)

Race #546

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Official speed 66.71 wpm (63.86 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start December 14, 2017 12:18:59pm UTC
Race Finish December 14, 2017 12:20:03pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 5)
Opponents 2. ed72 (60.89 wpm)
Accuracy 94.0%
Points 64.49
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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.