What does WASP stand for?

Wide Area Search for Planets (UK universities project)

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Samples in periodicals archive:

When I first saw that this thing might have a radius twice that of Jupiter, I was really astounded," said David Anderson of Keele University, a member of the UK-based Wide Area Search for Planets (WASP) consortium.

First planet that orbits "backward" around its star found by ...

The planet has been named WASP-17 because it is the 17th to be recorded outside the solar system by the Wide Area Search for Planets run by UK universities.

Largest planet is a backwards sort of place

He is a member of the Wide Area Search for Planets (WASP) team, who include astronomers from Keele University, Staffordshire, and Queen's University, Belfast.

SCOTS BOFFIN FINDS 3 NEW PLANETS; Boost for space team