Planet Hunters as presented at Brasil@Home
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Transcript of Planet Hunters as presented at Brasil@Home
You can find an exoplanetPlanetHunters
Javier de la Torre@jatorre
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so how is the NASA doing?not bad not bad...
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/02/08/a-new-view-of-the-ga.html
1236 exoplanet candidates
http://kepler.nasa.gov
15 confirmed
so this is perfect?obviously not...
algorithms finds what they have been trained to findthere might be other things there...
www.planethunters.org/planetometerin less than 6 months
http://blogs.zooniverse.org/planethunters/2011/04/12/keck-follow-up/
What is so great about PlanetHunters?
Great idea
It is a fun website to work on
There is a community and is being followed
Scientist report back regularly
Good Promotion on the web and media
http://www.planethunters.org/who_we_are
THANKS!