Fury (sponsoredbyvisa)

Race #401

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Official speed 81.67 wpm (52.16 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start July 19, 2018 6:09:58am UTC
Race Finish July 19, 2018 6:10:50am UTC
Outcome No win (5 of 5)
Accuracy 99.0%
Points 78.94
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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.