Planet Made of Diamond?

[thesummerqueen]

http://io9.com/5950949/one-of-the-first-...of-diamond

Remember 55 Cancri e? Sure you do — and if you don't, you should. After all, it may be the first diamond planet ever discovered that orbits a Sun-like star. At least we think it is; if there's one thing 55 Cancri e is good at, it's fooling astronomers into thinking it's something that it's not.

55 Cancri e is an exoplanet, one of the billions of worlds in the Milky Way Galaxy that exist outside our solar system. NASA's Kepler telescope has identified thousands of exoplanets since it was launched in 2009, but 55 Cancri e, in particular, is worth remembering — partly because it's weird, but also because it's something of an OG when it comes to Earth-like planetary discoveries.

[popeyespappy]

Make a hell of a engagement ring.

[Anomalocaris]

http://io9.com/5950949/one-of-the-first-...of-diamond

Remember 55 Cancri e? Sure you do — and if you don't, you should. After all, it may be the first diamond planet ever discovered that orbits a Sun-like star. At least we think it is; if there's one thing 55 Cancri e is good at, it's fooling astronomers into thinking it's something that it's not.

55 Cancri e is an exoplanet, one of the billions of worlds in the Milky Way Galaxy that exist outside our solar system. NASA's Kepler telescope has identified thousands of exoplanets since it was launched in 2009, but 55 Cancri e, in particular, is worth remembering — partly because it's weird, but also because it's something of an OG when it comes to Earth-like planetary discoveries.

Tisk Tisk. the feminine wiles expended in pursuit of a bigger diamond.

[thesummerqueen]

I prefer pearls.

[Reforged]

Jewellers around the world as I type this are shitting themselves and prepping an assault team to sabotage NASA before diamonds become just another rock and they're put out of business.

[cratehorus]

who needs a whole diamond planet when you've got a diamond ocean right in your own backyard?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/space...ptune.html

[Cyberman]

I remember Arthur C Clarke used the concept of gas giants such as Jupiter having diamond cores in his book 2061: Odyssey Three, based on a 1981 article in . I must get around to re-reading the novel sometime.