Smajin (smajin)

Race #432

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Official speed 77.73 wpm (54.81 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start April 19, 2017 6:59:10pm UTC
Race Finish April 19, 2017 7:00:04pm UTC
Outcome No win (3 of 4)
Opponents 1. tony82890 (103.24 wpm)
2. pielicker (79.57 wpm)
Accuracy 95.0%
Points 0.00
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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.