Cletus (feedmedope)

Race #7382

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Official speed 123.70 wpm (34.44 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start December 28, 2019 11:28:13pm UTC
Race Finish December 28, 2019 11:28:47pm UTC
Outcome No win (3 of 5)
Opponents 1. wordracer888 (133.05 wpm)
2. noimkevin (126.79 wpm)
4. kappow (98.18 wpm)
Accuracy 99.0%
Points 119.58
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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.