PlanetQuest

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For the 1999 book by Ken Croswell, see Planet Quest.

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

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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.

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