View Pit Stop page for race #13452 by ceiba — Ghost race
Official speed | 86.38 wpm (49.32 seconds elapsed during race) |
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Race Start | January 18, 2018 12:44:26am UTC |
Race Finish | January 18, 2018 12:45:15am UTC |
Outcome | No win (2 of 5) |
Accuracy | 99.0% |
Points | 83.50 |
Text | #3622418 (Length: 355 characters) 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. |