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Planet Sized Diamond Discovered
#14980810 - 08/26/11 07:34 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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By Ben Hirschler
LONDON | Thu Aug 25, 2011 2:26pm EDT
LONDON (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."
Reuters
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Re: Planet Sized Diamond Discovered [Re: Diploid]
#14980926 - 08/26/11 08:34 AM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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isn't there a diamond star as well?
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Re: Planet Sized Diamond Discovered [Re: iateshaggy]
#14987421 - 08/27/11 03:39 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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How can i get to it? If i can get to it i can make a lot of money. Someone please give me some info on this
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Re: Planet Sized Diamond Discovered [Re: dshow]
#14989289 - 08/27/11 10:53 PM (12 years, 7 months ago) |
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have fun mining solid diamond. what kind of bits do u use for that? even with high explosives, u won't scratch it.
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Re: Planet Sized Diamond Discovered [Re: iateshaggy]
#14989509 - 08/28/11 12:05 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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iateshaggy said: have fun mining solid diamond. what kind of bits do u use for that? even with high explosives, u won't scratch it.
there is a difference between hardness and toughness.
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its too big to fit on my ear...
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Re: Planet Sized Diamond Discovered [Re: iateshaggy]
#14990537 - 08/28/11 10:12 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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what kind of bits do u use for that? even with high explosives, u won't scratch it.
A HMX cutting charge won't scratch it? This I gotta see
Never mind the fact its soaring around a neutron star at less than half a solar radius, diamond's too hard we might as well give up
The thing of course has become a diamond precisely because it's being mauled by a neutron star.
I once calculated that if you lob a can of coke into a neutron star its impact will generate as much energy as a small nuke going off, a compacted planet with more mass than Jupiter, that's gonna be awesome.
An accretion disk composed of a thermonuclear fuel, you just KNOW that's going to turn someones night into day.
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Re: Planet Sized Diamond Discovered [Re: Asante]
#14993601 - 08/28/11 08:57 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Someone please tell me how i can get there? I holy need like a small chunk. Thanks.
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Re: Planet Sized Diamond Discovered [Re: dshow]
#14995356 - 08/29/11 07:56 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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That's not very likely. You are talking about a dynamic gravity situation that turned the planets CO2/CH4 into diamond. If you landed on the surface, you would be squashed like an empty coke can underfoot, so hard that your molecules will come undone and the carbon backbones of your protein will add to the diamond.
Due to the dynamic gravity situation, the planet will likely be extremely hot, probably glowing with heat.
If you have magic gravity, temperature, magnetism & radiation protection equipment, make sure to bring your extreme super rocket because you are going to need an insane amount of thrust to leave the gravity of the neutron star.
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Re: Planet Sized Diamond Discovered [Re: Asante]
#14995376 - 08/29/11 08:02 AM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Wiccan_Seeker said: That's not very likely. You are talking about a dynamic gravity situation that turned the planets CO2/CH4 into diamond. If you landed on the surface, you would be squashed like an empty coke can underfoot, so hard that your molecules will come undone and the carbon backbones of your protein will add to the diamond.
Due to the dynamic gravity situation, the planet will likely be extremely hot, probably glowing with heat.
If you have magic gravity, temperature, magnetism & radiation protection equipment, make sure to bring your extreme super rocket because you are going to need an insane amount of thrust to leave the gravity of the neutron star.
Nevermind. Wow i would not want to do that. No wonder people have not done that already
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Re: Planet Sized Diamond Discovered [Re: dshow]
#14997813 - 08/29/11 04:56 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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It's far easier to make your own diamonds here on earth.
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Re: Planet Sized Diamond Discovered [Re: dshow]
#14997839 - 08/29/11 05:01 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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dshow said:
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Wiccan_Seeker said: That's not very likely. You are talking about a dynamic gravity situation that turned the planets CO2/CH4 into diamond. If you landed on the surface, you would be squashed like an empty coke can underfoot, so hard that your molecules will come undone and the carbon backbones of your protein will add to the diamond.
Due to the dynamic gravity situation, the planet will likely be extremely hot, probably glowing with heat.
If you have magic gravity, temperature, magnetism & radiation protection equipment, make sure to bring your extreme super rocket because you are going to need an insane amount of thrust to leave the gravity of the neutron star.
Nevermind. Wow i would not want to do that. No wonder people have not done that already
Yeah that... And the fact that it's 4,000 lightyears away.
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Re: Planet Sized Diamond Discovered [Re: Toe_Jam]
#14998149 - 08/29/11 06:09 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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can we smoke it?
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Re: Planet Sized Diamond Discovered [Re: Toe_Jam]
#14998356 - 08/29/11 06:45 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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E-in Liondragon said:
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dshow said:
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Wiccan_Seeker said: That's not very likely. You are talking about a dynamic gravity situation that turned the planets CO2/CH4 into diamond. If you landed on the surface, you would be squashed like an empty coke can underfoot, so hard that your molecules will come undone and the carbon backbones of your protein will add to the diamond.
Due to the dynamic gravity situation, the planet will likely be extremely hot, probably glowing with heat.
If you have magic gravity, temperature, magnetism & radiation protection equipment, make sure to bring your extreme super rocket because you are going to need an insane amount of thrust to leave the gravity of the neutron star.
Nevermind. Wow i would not want to do that. No wonder people have not done that already
Yeah that... And the fact that it's 4,000 lightyears away.
so? we can travel that easily, ive seen it on t.v.
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Re: Planet Sized Diamond Discovered [Re: infectedstyle] 1
#14998392 - 08/29/11 06:50 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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infectedstyle said: can we smoke it?
Not that one, but I did find a planet made completely of crystal meth in my travels. It even has a DMT moon orbiting it.
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Re: Planet Sized Diamond Discovered [Re: Toe_Jam]
#15001648 - 08/30/11 12:39 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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I don't believe it's made of diamond. That was just an assumption they made. And as far as i know, they have not been able to get any clear images of planets outside our solar system. They find them by noticing a wobble in a stars motion and assume a large planet is doing it. They found carbon in the spectra of the star and assume it will be on the planet. Then they assumed the high gravity would produce diamonds. There is no way to know for sure what elements make up a planet unless it's hot enough to give off spectral lines. Then it would be more of a companion star than a planet.
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Re: Planet Sized Diamond Discovered [Re: Stonehenge]
#15004296 - 08/30/11 10:32 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Stonehenge said: I don't believe it's made of diamond. That was just an assumption they made. And as far as i know, they have not been able to get any clear images of planets outside our solar system. They find them by noticing a wobble in a stars motion and assume a large planet is doing it. They found carbon in the spectra of the star and assume it will be on the planet. Then they assumed the high gravity would produce diamonds. There is no way to know for sure what elements make up a planet unless it's hot enough to give off spectral lines. Then it would be more of a companion star than a planet.
Well, way to crash the party with your logic bullshit.
*point's at Stonehenge and whispers* That guy's a buzzkill man....
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Re: Planet Sized Diamond Discovered [Re: Toe_Jam]
#15006352 - 08/31/11 12:09 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Sorry man. Hey, did you hear about the planet made of gold?
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Re: Planet Sized Diamond Discovered [Re: Stonehenge]
#15006843 - 08/31/11 01:41 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Stonehenge said: Sorry man. Hey, did you hear about the planet made of gold?
No i didnt? really? its prob too far away huh??
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Re: Planet Sized Diamond Discovered [Re: Stonehenge]
#15006975 - 08/31/11 02:11 PM (12 years, 6 months ago) |
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Stonehenge said: Sorry man. Hey, did you hear about the planet made of gold?
Now that's the one I want to go to.
Please tell me it has a moon made of chocolate space hash.
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