mt (talint)

Race #10

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Official speed 79.13 wpm (53.84 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start November 29, 2017 10:29:53pm UTC
Race Finish November 29, 2017 10:30:47pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 5)
Opponents 2. spackers (76.53 wpm)
Accuracy 98.0%
Points 76.50
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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.