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Pit Stop
Racer kbeast (kbeast)
Race Number 3983
Date Tue, 24 Jan 2017 18:54:44
Speed 117 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 98.1%
Rank 2nd place (out of 4)
Opponents cheese0r (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)