Giancarlo (milkman007)

Race #2572

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Official speed 86.94 wpm (49.00 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start November 28, 2018 10:21:43pm UTC
Race Finish November 28, 2018 10:22:32pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 5)
Opponents 4. ipaio (54.54 wpm)
Accuracy 97.0%
Points 84.04
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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.