PlanetHunters allows citizen scientists to help discover exoplanets by classifying data from NASA's Kepler mission. The website has identified over 1200 exoplanet candidates and confirmed 15 planets since its launch less than 6 months ago. Users can review light curves from Kepler and determine if there are signs of a planet transit, helping advance scientific research.

1. PlanetHunters
You can find an exoplanet
Javier de la Torre
@jatorre

3. Wikipedia

10. so how is the NASA doing?
not bad not bad...

11. 1236 exoplanet candidates
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/02/08/a-new-view-of-the-ga.html

12. 15 confirmed
http://kepler.nasa.gov

13. so this is perfect?
obviously not...

14. algorithms finds what they
have been trained to find
there might be other things there...

20. www.planethunters.org/
planetometer
in less than 6 months

24. http://www.keckobservatory.org/

25. http://blogs.zooniverse.org/planethunters/2011/04/12/keck-follow-up/

26. 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

27. http://www.planethunters.org/who_we_are

29. THANKS!