Đejms (db007)

Race #135

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Official speed 50.15 wpm (84.95 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start June 26, 2018 10:14:05am UTC
Race Finish June 26, 2018 10:15:30am UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 2)
Accuracy 96.0%
Points 48.48
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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.