mr nonquit (that_shoulder_guy)

Race #29

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Official speed 191.78 wpm (22.21 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start January 31, 2020 2:33:46am UTC
Race Finish January 31, 2020 2:34:08am UTC
Outcome No win (1 of 1)
Accuracy 100.0%
Points 185.39
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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.