eiko (eikomaniac)

Race #5460

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Official speed 150.88 wpm (28.23 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start January 29, 2019 7:55:03pm UTC
Race Finish January 29, 2019 7:55:32pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 3)
Opponents 2. keegant (99.90 wpm)
Accuracy 98.0%
Points 145.85
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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.