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Exoplanet Explorers was a Zooniverse citizen science project aimed at discovering new exoplanets with Kepler data from the K2 mission. The project was launched in April 2017 and reached 26,281 registered volunteers. Two campaigns took place, the first one containing 148,061 images and the second one 56,794 images. A total of 9 exoplanets were found through the project: K2-138 b, c, d, e, f and g (initially referred to as EE-1b, EE-1c, EE-1d, and EE-1e), K2-233 b, c, and d, and
K2-288Bb K2-288Bb (previously designated EPIC 210693462 b) is a super-Earth or mini-Neptune exoplanet orbiting in the habitable zone of K2-288B, a low-mass Red dwarf, M-dwarf star in a binary star system in the constellation of Taurus (constellation), Tau ...
. K2-288Bb is considered to be potentially habitable with a radius of 1.91 Earth radii and a temperature of 206 K. Several other candidates in size groups were also found: Jupiters: 44, Neptunes: 72, super-Earths: 53, Earths: 15.


See also

* Planet Hunters * Planet Patrol


References

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