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Race #18481

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Official speed 190.59 wpm (22.35 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start January 24, 2020 12:38:55am UTC
Race Finish January 24, 2020 12:39:18am UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 3)
Opponents 2. erasmognome (130.79 wpm)
Accuracy 100.0%
Points 184.23
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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.