Planets Lurk on Your Desktop
 

Over the past 15 years, astronomers have found just 136 planets outside our solar system. But now space buffs David Gutelius and Laurance Doyle say they can push that number well into the thousands by 2010.

They just need to borrow your computer for a little while.

The two entrepreneurs are currently seeking funding for a nonprofit project that would turn the home computers of every amateur astronomer in the world into one giant calculator, capable of crunching through millions of bits of cosmic data each day.

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