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Pit Stop
Racer nmur (nmur)
Race Number 269
Date Tue, 12 Feb 2019 2:03:52
Speed 59 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 96.1%
Rank 4th place (out of 4)
Opponents faliona6 (2nd place) lozand (3rd place) quickfingers69 (1st 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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