15 Oct
2012
15 Oct
'12
1:09 p.m.
Allegedly there is a planet in a binary star system, which is actually two binary star systems orbiting each other (4 star system). And it was found by 2 amateur guys named Kian Jek and Robert Gagliano by examining public Kepler data to detect eclipses. Which seems kind of stupid, actually. I mean, it looks like they could have examined all their data by computer to spot planets, but instead built a web site to allow humans to examine the data, which since for 160000 stars is a ton of data. The humans then duly spotted the planet. http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/10/15/amateur-planet-hun... http://arxiv.org/pdf/1210.3612.pdf see conclusions page 22