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V_RocKs · 08-26-2011, 05:13 PM

Scientists just found the largest diamond in the universe and it isn't on Earth... It is a planet!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/...77O69A20110825

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(Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard.

The new planet is far denser than any other known so far and consists largely of carbon. Because it is so dense, scientists calculate the carbon must be crystalline, so a large part of this strange world will effectively be diamond.

"The evolutionary history and amazing density of the planet all suggest it is comprised of carbon -- i.e. a massive diamond orbiting a neutron star every two hours in an orbit so tight it would fit inside our own Sun," said Matthew Bailes of Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.

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 the so-called pulsar star it orbits.

Pulsars are tiny, dead neutron stars that are only around 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) in diameter and spin hundreds of times a second, emitting beams of radiation.

In the case of pulsar J1719-1438, the beams regularly sweep the Earth and have been monitored by telescopes in Australia, Britain and Hawaii, allowing astronomers to detect modulations due to the gravitational pull of its unseen companion planet.

The measurements suggest the planet, which orbits its star every two hours and 10 minutes, has slightly more mass than Jupiter but is 20 times as dense, Bailes and colleagues reported in the journal Science on Thursday.

In addition to carbon, the new planet is also likely to contain oxygen, which may be more prevalent at the surface and is probably increasingly rare toward the carbon-rich center.

Its high density suggests the lighter elements of hydrogen and helium, which are the main constituents of gas giants like Jupiter, are not present.

Just what this weird diamond world is actually like close up, however, is a mystery.

"In terms of what it would look like, I don't know I could even speculate," said Ben Stappers of the University of Manchester. "I don't imagine that a picture of a very shiny object is what we're looking at here."

onedree · 08-26-2011, 05:33 PM

The planet may also contains oxygen ... A lot of unknown stuff in our galaxy ...

Chosen · 08-26-2011, 09:20 PM

Cool

marlboroack · 08-27-2011, 02:30 AM

It's mine, i claimed it 1st. Here is the proof. This post. Date and time in caption.

seeandsee · 08-27-2011, 02:36 AM

diamond price down?!?

yeah we just need WARP 20 Ships

PromoterX · 08-27-2011, 04:07 AM

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Originally Posted by marlboroack

It's mine, i claimed it 1st. Here is the proof. This post. Date and time in caption.

Go claim your prize.. let us know how that works out.

DWB · 08-27-2011, 04:40 AM

That's no planet....

CaptainHowdy · 08-27-2011, 07:20 AM

That isn't a world ...

Relentless · 08-27-2011, 07:25 AM

DeBeers is already trying to figure out a way to send impoverished Africans to mine it for them.

John-ACWM · 08-27-2011, 09:45 AM

Interesting, heard it on the news.

bloggerz · 08-27-2011, 09:50 AM

Imagine putting that on a gold band to wear as a ring

crockett · 08-27-2011, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by bloggerz

Imagine putting that on a gold band to wear as a ring

Give it time.. some shitty rapper will try..

V_RocKs · 08-27-2011, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Relentless

DeBeers is already trying to figure out a way to send impoverished Africans to mine it for them.

Classic!

Charlie Fiend · 08-27-2011, 03:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Relentless

DeBeers is already trying to figure out a way to send impoverished Africans to mine it for them.

Once mined Kobe is putting it in his wife's clit stud!

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