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| Official speed | 51.02 wpm (83.50 seconds elapsed during race) |
|---|---|
| Race Start | March 16, 2017 10:14:43pm UTC |
| Race Finish | March 16, 2017 10:16:06pm UTC |
| Outcome | No win (3 of 4) |
| Accuracy | 90.0% |
| Points | 0.00 |
| 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. |