The project, which brings together research establishments including the ASIAA, National Central University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the University of Pennsylvania, is also boldly tackling an area of research "where no man has gone before," by embarking on the first systematic attempt to catalogue the small bodies thought to lie in the Kuiper Belt, at the outer edges of the solar system.
結合了中研院、中央大學與美國利物摩國家實驗室、賓州大學等研究單位的掩星計畫，也是「前不見古人」的先驅性探索，將針對未曾被仔細搜尋過、位於太陽系外圈的小型天體進行系統性清點。