the Diamond Planet
Did you miss this piece of news? According to the Washington Post:
Diamond planet discovered by astronomersAccording to CNET:
"A diamond-crystal planet five times the size of Earth and with more mass than Jupiter has been discovered in our own Milky Way galaxy.An international team of astronomers led by Swinburne University of Technology in Australia spotted the exotic planet racing around a tiny star 4,000 light years away and published their findings Thursday in the journal Science.."-more
Astronomers: We've found a planet made of diamond "Perhaps the biggest frustration for astronomers is that they can't get to the places that most interest them. So please imagine the excitement--and vexation--of skygazers who believe they have discovered a planet that might just be the shiniest piece of bling out there. Reuters paints a picture of astronomers who feel like someone who has just been offered 27 carats over their chocolate pudding.For there seems to be a planet orbiting tightly around a small star just down the road (in celestial terms) from Earth that is "a massive diamond." -moreAnd from the International Business Times:
The Milky Way’s Diamond Planet
"Professor Matthew Bailes of Melbourne, Australia's Swinburne University of Technology and his team of international astronomers have discovered a planet made of diamond in our Milky Way galaxy.An exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard With a 64-meter radio telescope situated in Parkes, Australia, the team of scientists from Australia, Italy, Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States, discovered the planet as it orbits a pulsar. A pulsar is described as a small spinning star that emits a beam of radio waves, which are then detected by Earth's radio telescopes as radio pulses. The pulsar and the planet were located 4,000 light years away in the Serpens constellation, which is part of the Milky Way's stars. The astronomers supported this discovery with further observations with the Lovell radio telescope in the United Kingdom and Keck telescopes in Hawaii." -more
Labels: astronomy, Depression, diamond, zircon
9 Comments:
But the real BIG news is that there is a super mega giant alien out there that is going to put that diamond in a setting and give it to his girlfriend.
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That does give new meaning to the nursery rhyme:
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are.
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky.
For all of the verses and more, see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twinkle_Twinkle_Little_Star
Izzy
B'H'
Bones,this discovery should have been kept under wraps. Can you just imagine the stampede to reach this planet and the chipping that will ensue?
I hope that our entrepreneurs will lead the pack in getting to this diamond in the sky. This can be as big as our gas and shale oil finds.
I would suggest that the government get behind this project, but the US happenings suggest that our Knesset sit this project out.(Mainly because some in our government are clones of American politicians) Am Yisrael Chai
4000 light years is not close at all. The furthest bright start that we can see is Deneb, at 1500 LY away. Most of the stars that you can see are 75-300 LY away. 4000 is unbelievably far.
Also, this is not diamond in the polished state that one imagines. The term diamond here is referring to a planet composed mostly of carbon. They call it a diamond because it is very dense and hot (near its parent star). However the actual properties of the planet may be more similar to coal than to an engagement ring. By contrast, our own planet is mostly iron, not carbon.
Lastly, this is not the first "diamond" found in the cosmos. There have been found "diamond stars": stars that have fused their hydrogen into helium and then their helium into carbon. These stars could be thousands of times the mass of the newfound planet, and have very similar properties.
Dotan Cohen,
I am accepting Dry Bones info.You have cast doubt upon our dream of finding diamonds and that is very dissapointing.
Our Israeli geniusis can work miracles so don't sell us short. If the diamond is there we'll get them. We will leave some for you.
Goes hand in hand with a few too many grad students that are aware of vast quantitites of ethanol in space, albeit it molecular quantites, bound in galaxies between stars and planetary systems...
Some us it as a notion that perhaps, despite Nietzsche and Darwinist opinions, there might be a G-d out there.
Think how much a bucket of dirt would be worth up there!
Mr. Dovie~ too funny!!!
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