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Pit Stop
Racer vetle (vetlebg)
Race Number 1805
Date Sun, 2 Apr 2017 14:06:50
Speed 69 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 98.1%
Rank 2nd place (out of 5)
Opponents clydesilverlight (1st place) spline (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)