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Pit Stop
Racer Baze (b2z3)
Race Number 21
Date Sat, 30 May 2020 10:25:12
Speed 58 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 95.5%
Rank 3rd place (out of 5)
Opponents br4nk (2nd place) poudel (5th 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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