TSpin (all_type)

Race #5407

View Pit Stop page for race #5407 by all_typeGhost race

View profile for TSpin (all_type)

Official speed 58.36 wpm (73.00 seconds elapsed during race)
Race Start December 4, 2018 10:21:23pm UTC
Race Finish December 4, 2018 10:22:36pm UTC
Outcome No win (2 of 4)
Accuracy 96.0%
Points 56.41
Text #3622418 (Length: 355 characters)

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.