River (ronguat)

Race #467

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Official speed 95.86 wpm (44.44 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start December 7, 2020 11:43:06am UTC
Race Finish December 7, 2020 11:43:51am UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 5)
Opponents 1. vergajo (106.95 wpm)
Accuracy 97.0%
Points 92.66
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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.