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Pit Stop
Racer The Madman (themadmanwins)
Race Number 744
Date Thu, 7 Dec 2017 2:15:03
Speed 62 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 95.6%
Rank 4th place (out of 5)
Opponents akwon (2nd place) stevenjw (1st 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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