Aadil (aadil0392)

Race #2391

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Official speed 58.13 wpm (73.28 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start March 12, 2018 7:23:38pm UTC
Race Finish March 12, 2018 7:24:51pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 5)
Accuracy 95.0%
Points 56.20
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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.