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📅 MIT Science Bowl 2022🎓 HS🔄 Round 6#️⃣ Question 8🌟 BONUS📝 Multiple Choice

Astronomers at MIT were part of the TESS team which recently discovered a planet with a radius of 1.5 times that of the Earth orbiting a star with a radius of 0.44 times that of the Sun at a distance of 0.05 astronomical units. Which of the following is closest to the fraction of light which is blocked when the planet transits the star?

W) 10^-7
X) 10^-5
Y) 10^-3
Z) 10^-1
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