1060 (thquirrels)

Race #235

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Official speed 92.77 wpm (45.92 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start March 23, 2017 6:20:29am UTC
Race Finish March 23, 2017 6:21:15am UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 4)
Accuracy 96.0%
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.