The Centauri Race
Astro babe Debra Fischer is in a race against planet finder Geoff Marcy et. al. to find HZ planets, in her case she's focued on the long shot possibility of the Alfer Centauri system. She's been encouraged by Greg Laughlin, a theoretical astrophysicist who writes software tools for amateur planet-hunters whose Systemic blog covers extrasolar planetology.