Afz (afzofa)

Race #6936

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Official speed 147.24 wpm (28.93 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start October 11, 2020 7:53:21am UTC
Race Finish October 11, 2020 7:53:50am UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 2)
Accuracy 99.0%
Points 142.33
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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.