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Racer Salmon (salmonofdoubt)
Race Number 4095
Date Wed, 10 May 2017 17:05:11 +0000
Speed 82 WPM Try to beat?
Accuracy 95.2%
Rank 1st place (out of 5)
Opponents benb305 (4th place) ragon206 (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.
Astronomy: A Beginner's Guide to the Universe (7th Edition) (book) by Eric Chaisson, Steve McMillan (see stats)