Master (mcrockett)

Race #1624

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Official speed 90.81 wpm (46.91 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start February 19, 2019 12:57:15pm UTC
Race Finish February 19, 2019 12:58:02pm UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 2)
Opponents 1. sanicdehedgehog (113.97 wpm)
Accuracy 98.0%
Points 87.78
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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.