ch3moL (ch3mol)

Race #72

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Official speed 52.69 wpm (80.85 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start March 16, 2017 4:30:51pm UTC
Race Finish March 16, 2017 4:32:12pm UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 5)
Opponents 4. manuk (46.25 wpm)
5. maybecow (41.96 wpm)
Accuracy 92.0%
Points 0.00
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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.