Edward (virtualknight)

Race #828

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Official speed 76.08 wpm (55.99 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start March 31, 2020 1:05:44am UTC
Race Finish March 31, 2020 1:06:40am UTC
Outcome No win (4 of 5)
Opponents 2. mcentag (108.28 wpm)
Accuracy 97.0%
Points 73.54
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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.