Baked and Buttered (mcallen_tx)

Race #2124

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Official speed 94.08 wpm (45.28 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start February 26, 2020 5:29:57am UTC
Race Finish February 26, 2020 5:30:42am UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 3)
Accuracy 95.0%
Points 90.94
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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.