Could (Is) a projet exists to search for exoplanets!?

> Hi everybody,
>
> I am amazed by the Einstein@home project!
> Sure that it's the first of a new generation of distributed computing
> projects.
>
> I was wondering if it's technically possible to think about a project like
> this that could search fo exoplanets (planets that share some similarities
> with our planet Earth) ... or do it's just still a dream, for now :-)
>
> Martin (just a fan of astronomy & Sc.Fiction.)
>
I don't know how heavy the computational load for analyzing the data collected
on exoplanets is. If it is exceedingly heavy and can be broken into chunks as is SETI data it could certainly be a BOINC application. However, the astronomers seem to be doing well enough right now. However, when(if) Hubble is upgraded or when the next generation observatory comes on line there may be sufficient computation to warrant it. I think, though, that the computation load for visual data is nowhere near that for radio data.

There is a project starting up to use distributed processing for detecting Near Earth Objects but it isn't using BOINC yet.