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Posted by: Rakhir Oct 20 2006, 10:22 AM

A distributed computing screen saver to find extrasolar planets.

Home page : http://www.planetquest.org/

Space.com article : http://space.com/searchforlife/seti_planetquest_061019.html

Posted by: PhilCo126 Oct 20 2006, 07:02 PM

Thanks for pointing this out... Finding Earth-like extra solar planets will be astronomy's largest challenge at the beginning of the 21st century

Philip

Posted by: ustrax Oct 27 2006, 05:33 PM

I don't know if someone has already made reference to it but http://planetquest.jpl.nasa.gov/TPF/tpf_index.cfm is quite informative...