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Pit Stop
Racer gearrrewf (gerardgb)
Race Number 135
Date Tue, 4 Apr 2017 11:16:27
Speed 68 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 86.2%
Rank 3rd place (out of 3)
Opponents faridz33_ (1st place) raygarswank (2nd 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)