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Pit Stop
Racer Matt (prysms)
Race Number 87
Date Wed, 22 Jan 2020 20:31:25
Speed 73 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 95.5%
Rank 1st place (out of 5)
Opponents bignasty394 (4th place) oweozz (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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