Saturday, August 27, 2011

GEM OF DISCOVERY

International teams of scientist from Australia, Italy, Germany, Britain and US have discovered a planet “made of diamonds”. They reported to the Journal Science that they have unearthed a massive star in the Milky Way which is transformed into a small planet mostly consist of precious rock. They discovered a star called Pulsar and followed up their discovery using a telescope at Cheshire observatory. Pulsar is a small star which as the diameter of ten miles and emits radio waves. The diamond planet is the remains of the original star. The planet is very small and too close to the pulsar, if it is bit bigger it would have been ripped off by the gravitational pull of the Pulsar. It rotates more than 10,000 times per minute and has mass about 1.4 times of the sun. The scientist also claimed that the planet may be made up of carbon and oxygen because if the star is made up of hydrogen and helium it would be too big. The density shows that the material is likely to be crystalline which is similar to diamond.



“This remnant is likely to be largely carbon and oxygen, because a star made of lighter elements like hydrogen and helium would be too big to fit the measured orbiting times,” said research team member Michael Keith of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization in Australia.
This discovery will rise the dream of inter galactic journey for mining the precious stone. Anyhow the journey to the Diamond planet with present technology takes many light years. The cost of the diamond found in the world will be much cheaper than mining them from the far away planet.

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