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Kuros
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 Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 6:06 pm Post subject: Diamond Planet? |
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Astronomers Think They've Found a Planet Made of Diamond
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| "Lying 4,000 light years away, or around an eighth of the way toward the center of the Milky Way from the Earth, the planet is probably the remnant of a once-massive star that has lost its outer layers" to a dead neutron star, or "pulsar star," Reuters notes. Matthew Bailes, one of the authors of the study, describes the planet as "a massive diamond orbiting a neutron star every two hours in an orbit so tight it would fit inside our own Sun." The astronomers detected the planet using radio telescopes and hypothesize that a high-pressure environment caused the planet's carbon core to crystallize into diamond. |
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riverboy
Joined: 03 Jun 2003
Location: Incheon
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| Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| That's so cool. |
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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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| Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 6:56 pm Post subject: |
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| I wonder how long before de beers looks into making a claim on the planet to protect their monopoly. |
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manlyboy
Joined: 01 Aug 2004
Location: Darwin, Northern Territory, Australia
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| Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2011 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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| 25 times the gravity of Earth, I heard. Even if we could get there we'd be crushed. No way to harvest it. |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:04 am Post subject: |
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| manlyboy wrote: |
| 25 times the gravity of Earth, I heard. Even if we could get there we'd be crushed. No way to harvest it. |
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visitorq
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 12:17 am Post subject: |
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| Leon wrote: |
| I wonder how long before de beers looks into making a claim on the planet to protect their monopoly. |
Diamonds aren't even scarce. De Beers has more diamond reserves than it knows what to do with. They'd be more interested in not having people even know about it than in harvesting from it. |
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Leon
Joined: 31 May 2010
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| Posted: Sat Aug 27, 2011 5:41 am Post subject: |
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| visitorq wrote: |
| Leon wrote: |
| I wonder how long before de beers looks into making a claim on the planet to protect their monopoly. |
Diamonds aren't even scarce. De Beers has more diamond reserves than it knows what to do with. They'd be more interested in not having people even know about it than in harvesting from it. |
I know, that's what I was referring to. |
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