WASP

WASP (Wide Angle Search for Planets, sometimes cited as Wide Area Search for Planets) is a project of a number of universities to discover extra-solar planets using the transit method. A pilot operation began in 1999 using a robotic telescope. Later improvements have led to two sites in the two hemispheres, each with an array of telescopes, the improved version called SuperWASP. Well over a hundred planets have been discovered, some of high research interest. Note the WASP prefix may refer to a discovery before or after the SuperWASP improvements.