#  Harvard Star-Gazer Sasselov Maps Space Frontier From Davos 

 





January 25, 2010

 

 

Some 5,000 light-years from this week’s [World Economic Forum](http://www.weforum.org) and the worst earthly economic crisis since the Great Depression, astronomer [Dimitar Sasselov](http://search.bloomberg.com/search?q=Dimitar%20Sasselov&site=wnews&client=wnews&proxystylesheet=wnews&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=p&getfields=wnnis&sort=date:D:S:d1) is charting the New Frontier for investment capital over a bespoke iPhone app that connects with a planet called Sheila.

“Globalization is complete,” the director of Harvard University’s [Origins of Life Initiative Project](http://origins.harvard.edu) says, tapping his smart phone into the radio-telescope transmissions that on Nov. 12, 2002, led him to discover OGLE-TR-56b, the exosolar world that he unofficially named after his wife.

[Read the *Bloomberg* article. ](http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=alLCE7adBQ_M)



 

 

 



 

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