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Race Result Details |
| Racer | Sean (metrognome12) |
| Race Number | 493 |
| Date | Thu, 20 Aug 2020 16:34:32 |
| Speed |
69 WPM
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| Accuracy | 95.1% |
| Rank | 1st place (out of 5) |
| Opponents | what3223 (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.
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Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition)
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by Eric Chaisson, Steve McMillan
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