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Pit Stop
Racer poudel (poudel)
Race Number 437
Date Sat, 30 May 2020 10:25:24
Speed 50 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 92.5%
Rank 5th place (out of 5)
Opponents b2z3 (3rd place) br4nk (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)

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