Popescu (gioto)

Race #518

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Official speed 103.23 wpm (41.27 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start December 22, 2019 12:14:40pm UTC
Race Finish December 22, 2019 12:15:21pm UTC
Outcome Win (1 of 4)
Opponents 3. elliot_notts (82.30 wpm)
Accuracy 97.0%
Points 99.79
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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.