PlanetQuest

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PlanetQuest is a grid computing project for discovering new planets and classifying stars from Earth-based observatories' images.

[edit] Overview

The project is still under development and will utilize the BOINC platform. To search for new planets, this project developed the Transit Detection Algorithm (TDA), photometric (light-measuring) method, which can automatically detect new planets using the optical information from ground-based telescopes. The TDA has also been adapted for use in NASA's Kepler Mission.

[edit] See also

• List of distributed computing projects
• BOINC
• SETI@home
• Distributed computing

[edit] External links

• PlanetQuest Website
• Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC)