bunbun (typerbun)

Race #682

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Official speed 79.45 wpm (53.62 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start January 30, 2017 12:27:07pm UTC
Race Finish January 30, 2017 12:28:00pm UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 4)
Accuracy 92.0%
Points 0.00
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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.