Lee (90minutesperword)

Race #130

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Official speed 99.45 wpm (42.84 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start September 25, 2019 11:44:33pm UTC
Race Finish September 25, 2019 11:45:16pm UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 4)
Opponents 1. peterpra (107.89 wpm)
Accuracy 99.0%
Points 96.13
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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.