Giorgi (0_alien)

Race #1579

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Official speed 72.86 wpm (58.47 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start May 14, 2017 7:06:37pm UTC
Race Finish May 14, 2017 7:07:36pm UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 5)
Opponents 1. dizo (72.88 wpm)
Accuracy 94.0%
Points 0.00
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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.