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Race #39

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Official speed 133.10 wpm (32.01 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start May 11, 2019 12:17:39am UTC
Race Finish May 11, 2019 12:18:12am UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 3)
Opponents 2. nielsjensen (110.80 wpm)
3. chsanfor (99.64 wpm)
Accuracy 99.0%
Points 128.66
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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.