AI-assisted Discovery: New Dwarf Planet Candidate Found with Claude

Will Depue, Joshua Wolk and Luke Farritor used Claude and Codex to mine public telescope data, claiming the discovery of a dwarf planet candidate roughly half the size of Pluto and among the 50 largest known solar system objects. They also launched the Claudestronomy project with $100,000 in grants for amateur astronomy research.

2026-11-12 ~ 2026-11-12 · 4 related posts

• Claude helps astronomer identify a dwarf planet candidate — ~50th largest known solar system object — mjuric · 2026-11-12
• Claude agent finds dwarf planet candidate in public sky data; $100K grants launched — jzlegion · 2026-11-12
• Amateurs with Claude + Codex claim discovery of a new dwarf planet in public telescope data — willdepue · 2026-11-12

1 near-duplicate retellings: mjuric