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Race #967

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Official speed 114.58 wpm (37.18 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start November 15, 2020 4:01:21pm UTC
Race Finish November 15, 2020 4:01:58pm UTC
Outcome No win (1 of 1)
Accuracy 98.0%
Points 110.76
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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.