NASA Exoplanet Watch

Packet identity

Packet ID: opportunities:opp-nasa-exoplanet-watch
Packet SHA-256 identity: 3e03ff50d7a427ed9fa82960fc48671136718d61d70a7c88b8bbc006bb11e001
Corpus SHA-256 identity: 8fa944604ca189f5a9216ca59f640ad2ca20972ad512f2f4970764716782e18d
Release ID: public-alpha-2026-07-26-research-visuals-r14
Source commit: 3eb036fce3d711336c8c605625895e8a2e799ab0
Frozen corpus date: 2026-07-25
Primary records: 1
Reference sources: 1

Questions and exclusions

Required questions

Required question 1 (exact ID: question-1)
Does the official source support the opportunity identity, status, timing, eligibility, and access constraints?
Required question 2 (exact ID: question-2)
Is the proposed fit specific and proportionate without implying availability, invitation, selection, or funding?
Required question 3 (exact ID: question-3)
What deadline, rule, jurisdiction, cost, conflict, or accessibility fact would change the proposed next action?

Explicit exclusions

Review does not submit, register, apply, contact, commit, purchase, or establish eligibility.
Provider prestige and apparent fit cannot replace current official terms.

Requested controlled scopes: ecosystem-due-diligence, opportunity-eligibility-access

Frozen-evidence decision window: 30 days from the packet freeze. Not applicable to this packet family.

Complete primary record set

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opportunity · opp-nasa-exoplanet-watch

NASA Exoplanet Watch

Record fingerprint
924223e302bbae5153da4925c15ac5046b4c0816c7811c55660848c87d4da45c

Minimum approvals
1

Required scope groups
bounded-competence: ecosystem-due-diligence, opportunity-eligibility-access

High-consequence domains
None under the named two-person rule

Review state
pending

Published human decisions
0

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ID
opp-nasa-exoplanet-watch
Name
NASA Exoplanet Watch
URL
https://science.nasa.gov/citizen-science/exoplanet-watch/ (opens external site in a new tab)
Provider
NASA Science
Kind
Citizen science and data analysis
Timing
Ongoing online or outdoor citizen-science project. NASA's page was last updated June 25, 2026 and publishes a current checklist, data-checkout route, tutorials, software, community, and result-upload workflow.
Fit
Target-characterization literacy, reproducible data analysis, uncertainty, and public science
Status
active; ongoing
Verified At
2026-07-26
Current Until
2026-08-02
Eligibility
NASA states that no prior knowledge is required, a web-connected device is sufficient to start, and the online training takes approximately two to four minutes. Participants may use their own telescope or request robotic-telescope data.
Access Notes
The work uses free EXOTIC software to analyze transit observations. Joining Slack, requesting data, downloading or executing software, creating accounts, uploading results to the AAVSO database, and public attribution are distinct actions with their own privacy, security, data-quality, licensing, and community consequences. The route is relevant to target-characterization literacy, not evidence that any destination is habitable.
Founder Action
Use the public checklist and tutorial to define a reproducible beginner analysis and data-quality ledger before joining a community or uploading results. Keep observation, model, inference, and habitability interpretation separate; seek separate authorization before creating external accounts, joining Slack, requesting nonpublic access, or publishing under the GShips name.
Evidence Boundary
NASA's official Exoplanet Watch page supports the ongoing project, no-telescope data-checkout path, robotic-telescope option, free EXOTIC software, two-to-four-minute training estimate, web-device requirement, no-prior-knowledge statement, upload route, and community channels. It does not establish a participant's result quality, software security, account or privacy terms, acceptance, authorship, discovery, target habitability, or NASA affiliation.
Relationship
indexed only; no formal relationship
Action Status
proposed; not undertaken
Conflicts
Public attribution, software and data provenance, novice analysis quality, NASA name proximity, community accounts, and the project's target-characterization narrative require careful review.
What Would Change
A changed project status, checklist, training, data-access, software, upload, privacy, licensing, or community rule—or a completed reproducible analysis with independent quality review—would change this assessment.

Equivalent record table for this packet
Record	Subject	Fingerprint	Approvals	Scope groups
opportunity:opp-nasa-exoplanet-watch	NASA Exoplanet Watch	`924223e302bbae5153da4925c15ac5046b4c0816c7811c55660848c87d4da45c`	1	bounded-competence: ecosystem-due-diligence, opportunity-eligibility-access

Linked records—not review targets here

These records provide dependency or relationship context. Their decisions belong to their single primary packet, preventing double counting.

robotic-destination-characterization · opp-nasa-exoplanet-watch opportunity-task-match:opportunity-match-destination-exoplanet-watch · db679380ed586625c502636433b2056514fbefa89d3f98e942dc894df56138c7

Frozen source snapshots

Source inclusion does not determine the disposition. Reviewers must inspect the cited locator and relation, note inaccessible material, and identify stronger or conflicting evidence.

Sources, verification dates, scope notes, and exact fingerprints
Source ID	Source	Checked	Scope boundary	Fingerprint
official-opportunity-opp-nasa-exoplanet-watch	NASA Exoplanet Watch (opens external site in a new tab)	2026-07-26	NASA's official Exoplanet Watch page supports the ongoing project, no-telescope data-checkout path, robotic-telescope option, free EXOTIC software, two-to-four-minute training estimate, web-device requirement, no-prior-knowledge statement, upload route, and community channels. It does not establish a participant's result quality, software security, account or privacy terms, acceptance, authorship, discovery, target habitability, or NASA affiliation.	`e08fb7c564173712b9c3fdf676df554c19b9e179f9a33ff71b651dbc18f3e1cc`

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Review-notes worksheet · Markdown

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Packet schema · JSON · Decision-bundle schema · JSON

Validate offline

Use Node.js 22.13.0 or later. Keep the packet, worksheet, completed decision, and all six kit files together in a local directory.

Download the six kit files below. Complete a copy of the JSON template offline and preserve its templateFingerprint.
Finalize a separate output file.
```
node finalize-review-decision.mjs \
  --input DRAFT.json \
  --output COMPLETED.json
```
This marks the copy complete and calculates an unkeyed canonical bundle fingerprint. A fingerprint detects changes; it is not a reviewer signature.
Validate the packet and completed copy.
```
node check-review-decisions.mjs \
  --packet PACKET.json \
  --decision COMPLETED.json
```
Add another --decision for each independent reviewer.
Interpret the result narrowly. A zero exit proves structural consistency only. Neither command appoints or qualifies a reviewer, establishes independence, accepts a decision, or authorizes publication.

Completion criteria

Every primary record must receive the required number of valid, current-fingerprint approvals; every complementary scope group and required domain must be covered; any unresolved revise, contest, or reject disposition blocks publication.

Named medical, reproductive, nuclear, radiation, cybersecurity, governance, and dual-use conclusions require two distinct qualified independent humans covering complementary domain-method and rights/public-interest scopes.

Reviewer identity, qualification, independence, conflicts, and compensation must be assessed by accountable human governance; local validation can only report structural validity.
Approve, revise, contest, reject, and recuse remain visible. A negative finding cannot be hidden by an aggregate approval percentage.
Revision creates a new record and packet fingerprint. Prior approvals do not carry forward automatically.
AI may assist with clerical comparison but cannot count as an independent reviewer, identity attestor, appeal authority, or second person.