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Pit Stop
Racer Tom (tommybms)
Race Number 9
Date Sat, 13 May 2017 10:41:31
Speed 60 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 89.7%
Rank 2nd place (out of 4)
Opponents liudvikas (1st place) vahbiv (4th 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)