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Diamond Planet

Diamond Planet

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Rob Archer
Aug 25, 2011
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Here's one for your imagination: A planet that may be basically a big diamond has been discovered by astronomers. (It should be noted that Arthur C. Clarke, in 2010: Odyssey Two, speculated that the core of Jupiter was an earth-sized diamond. So once again, Clarke got there first.)

An exotic planet that seems to be made of diamond racing around a tiny star in our galactic backyard in an undated image courtesy of Swinburne University of Technology in Melbourne.

LONDON (Reuters) - Astronomers have spotted an exotic planet that seems t…

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