View Pit Stop page for race #1165 by jprk — Ghost race
| Official speed | 117.40 wpm (36.29 seconds elapsed during race) |
|---|---|
| Race Start | August 21, 2020 11:55:54pm UTC |
| Race Finish | August 21, 2020 11:56:30pm UTC |
| Outcome | Win (1 of 3) |
| Accuracy | 98.0% |
| Points | 113.48 |
| 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. |