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Race #45

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Official speed 60.24 wpm (70.72 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start August 11, 2020 9:42:02pm UTC
Race Finish August 11, 2020 9:43:12pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 5)
Opponents 2. leetuser (58.33 wpm)
Accuracy 94.0%
Points 58.24
Text #3622418 (Length: 355 characters)

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.