Anand (perlaanand)

Race #998

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Official speed 49.27 wpm (86.46 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start October 19, 2020 12:15:21pm UTC
Race Finish October 19, 2020 12:16:47pm UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 5)
Opponents 3. jhonny_space0ut (47.01 wpm)
Accuracy 92.0%
Points 47.63
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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.