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Pit Stop
Racer Bri (bhanchen)
Race Number 104
Date Sat, 24 Mar 2018 6:09:14
Speed 59 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 95.9%
Rank 5th place (out of 5)
Opponents akmanra (2nd place) carlit0 (1st place) moses297 (4th place) tip3 (3rd place)

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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.
— (book) by Eric Chaisson, Steve McMillan (see stats)

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