Massive diamond planet discovered by astronomers

[Sparrow]

A large, rocky planet composed partially of diamonds has been discovered by astronomers at Yale University.
The planet, called 55 Cancri e, has a radius twice as big as Earth’s and a mass eight times greater. It is one of five planets that orbit a star 40 light years from Earth.
“This is our first glimpse of a world with a fundamentally different chemistry from Earth,” said lead researcher Nikku Madhusudhan, a Yale postdoctoral researcher in physics and astronomy.
“The surface of this planet is likely covered in graphite and diamond rather than water and granite.”
The planet orbits exceedingly quickly. Its year lasts just 18 hours, in contrast to Earth’s 365 days. Researchers say it is also blazingly hot, with a temperature of about 2,149 C — a far cry from a habitable world.



Massive diamond planet discovered by astronomers - Technology & Science - CBC News


I can imagine there are some who would like to get their hands on this planet.

 

[Johnnny]

Thats wild stuff

I can imagine there are some who would like to get their hands on this planet.

De Beers would be one id imagine

 

[SLM]

Look for De Beers to become a NASA sponsor, lol.

 

[WLDB]

De Beers would be one id imagine

They're hiding enough of them to drive up prices already. Thats why I'd never buy one. Ever.

 

[Praxius]

Did someone say Diamond Planet??

 

[JLM]

A large, rocky planet composed partially of diamonds has been discovered by astronomers at Yale University.
The planet, called 55 Cancri e, has a radius twice as big as Earth’s and a mass eight times greater. It is one of five planets that orbit a star 40 light years from Earth.
“This is our first glimpse of a world with a fundamentally different chemistry from Earth,” said lead researcher Nikku Madhusudhan, a Yale postdoctoral researcher in physics and astronomy.
“The surface of this planet is likely covered in graphite and diamond rather than water and granite.”
The planet orbits exceedingly quickly. Its year lasts just 18 hours, in contrast to Earth’s 365 days. Researchers say it is also blazingly hot, with a temperature of about 2,149 C — a far cry from a habitable world.



Massive diamond planet discovered by astronomers - Technology & Science - CBC News


I can imagine there are some who would like to get their hands on this planet.

I suppose it would be a little formidable for even the greediest bastards. :lol::lol:

 

[karrie]

No one in the diamond market would want us getting anywhere near this planet. It would make diamonds worthless.

 

[earth_as_one]

How would you mine a planet made of diamonds? Likely diamond based drill bits would be useless.

 

[WLDB]

No one in the diamond market would want us getting anywhere near this planet. It would make diamonds worthless.

They already are or would be if they released all the ones they have for sale. Their price is artificially high.

 

[#juan]

Let me see here. This diamond planet is forty light years away so if we could travel at the speed of light, it would take
forty years to get there and forty years to get back. The problem is, that we can't get even close to the speed of light.
In any case, why would we want to go there? Not for the diamonds, we can already make diamonds for industry and
in another hundred years who knows, maybe we'll be able to turn out diamonds the size of the Hope Diamond for toys.

 

[earth_as_one]

J,
That would be a more likely near term scenario...

But the find is interesting and a clue that the universe is a diverse place full of new discoveries.

 

[WLDB]

In any case, why would we want to go there?

Because its there. Same reason we've always explored. Those who dont want to go dont have to. We're going to have to go out there eventually either way. The earth wont always be habitable.

 

[Johnnny]

In any case, why would we want to go there?

Same reason why people went to the north pole.....

And by the sounds of it, the place is a #2 pencil gold mine :lol:

 

[spaminator]

I wonder if there are bronze, silver, and gold planets as well?

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Gotta be, in an infinite series of parallel universes of infinite size, everything exists. Which means there's a universe where I am Batman. Too bad it's not this one.

 

[darkbeaver]

It's math diamond only , they simply need that density to support their consensual observations because they refuse to invoke the obvious electrical signatures. In a few decades you'll laugh at such nonsense. They think space is flat.







Pulsed Power

Pulsed Power
May 06, 2010

The finger-like structures in this nebula are the signature of electric currents flowing through clouds of plasma.According to a press release from the Chandra X-ray Telescope Observatory last year, "A small, dense object only twelve miles in diameter is responsible for this beautiful X-ray nebula [above] that spans 150 light years." The object to which they refer is a rapidly rotating neutron star called a "pulsar." The pulsar that Chandra saw in the constellation Circinus flashes once every seven seconds, so the neutron star must be rotating at an amazing speed if consensus theories are correct.
Neutron stars are supposed to answer the question of anomalous pulsar behavior, especially when their brightness fluctuates over a short time, sometimes fractions of a second. They are said to be the remains of stars that have undergone supernova explosions, blowing off their outer layers, leaving an ultra-dense core behind. It is thought that all the electrons in the remaining stellar core are crushed by intense gravity until they are forced to combine with protons in the atomic nuclei, forming matter so dense that a single teaspoon would weigh billions of tons on Earth.
As conventional theories propose, some neutron stars have hot spots: regions where so-called "magnetic reconnection events" take p