Victor (_jokur_)

Race #469

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Official speed 42.29 wpm (100.73 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start November 26, 2019 5:29:40pm UTC
Race Finish November 26, 2019 5:31:21pm UTC
Outcome No win (4 of 5)
Accuracy 94.0%
Points 40.88
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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.