Joe (seph_of_joe)

Race #6755

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Official speed 137.05 wpm (31.08 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start December 17, 2020 9:56:11pm UTC
Race Finish December 17, 2020 9:56:43pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 5)
Opponents 3. maddyjune (94.78 wpm)
Accuracy 98.0%
Points 132.48
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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.