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Diamond planet discovered! ...don't tell wife.

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Lubba Luft
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#1 - 2012-10-12 14:09:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Lubba Luft
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10/121011-diamond-planet-space-solar-system-astronomy-science/

A new kind of planet was discovered recently. I hope CCP give us planets like this to play with in the near future. (following the next expansion?Big smile) That shows that the diversity of planets in this universe defies our imagination.
coolzero
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2012-10-12 14:14:24 UTC
its 40 lightyears away.... if you hate your wife you should be glad if she is going for it :D
Jim Era
#3 - 2012-10-12 14:16:02 UTC
Hmm, how much for a one way ticket on virgin galactic for her?

Wat™
Shalua Rui
Rui Freelance Mining
#4 - 2012-10-12 14:16:16 UTC
Well then... I'm off... see you in a couple of 1000 years... Blink

"ginger forum goddess, space gypsy and stone nibbler extraordinaire!" Shalua Rui - CEO and founder of Rui Freelance Mining (RFLM)
Alice Saki
Nocturnal Romance
Cynosural Field Theory.
#5 - 2012-10-12 14:22:19 UTC
Shalua Rui wrote:
Well then... I'm off... see you in a couple of 1000 years... Blink


Hey I'm coming!

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Pingu Arareb
Royal Amarr Institute
Amarr Empire
#6 - 2012-10-12 14:27:02 UTC
Alice Saki wrote:
Shalua Rui wrote:
Well then... I'm off... see you in a couple of 1000 years... Blink


Hey I'm coming!

i am cuming too
highonpop
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#7 - 2012-10-12 14:33:36 UTC
I've always wondered how viewing a spec of light through a telescope and observing it size and orbit can tell you that its made of diamonds and not made of regular rocks.

FC, what do?
Eugene Kerner
TunDraGon
Goonswarm Federation
#8 - 2012-10-12 14:36:34 UTC
highonpop wrote:
I've always wondered how viewing a spec of light through a telescope and observing it size and orbit can tell you that its made of diamonds and not made of regular rocks.


Thats the reason why you play too much Eve and others do the science.

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Ravnik
Infinate Horizon
#9 - 2012-10-12 14:51:18 UTC
Well...its something to do with analysing different wavelengths. The guy who discovered it was made of diamonds however had a VERY VERY large Monocle!

The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly..........
Soi Mala
Whacky Waving Inflatable Flailing Arm Tubemen
#10 - 2012-10-12 15:00:45 UTC
Pretty sure they said the same about some moons in our own solar system a while back.
Ravnik
Infinate Horizon
#11 - 2012-10-12 15:01:55 UTC
Soi Mala wrote:
Pretty sure they said the same about some moons in our own solar system a while back.


They were not moons...they were space stations...Shocked

The light that burns twice as bright burns half as long - and you have burned so very, very brightly..........
Staleward Ad'mraa
F-I-N-K PROPERTY
#12 - 2012-10-12 15:12:09 UTC
Aliens created the planet to mess with us.... they decided one day to make a whole planet out of a diamond. Then any race that came across it would be baffled and amazed.
Myrkala
Royal Robot Ponies
#13 - 2012-10-12 15:14:54 UTC
highonpop wrote:
I've always wondered how viewing a spec of light through a telescope and observing it size and orbit can tell you that its made of diamonds and not made of regular rocks.



They analyze the spectrum of the light and look for dark lines, which then correspond to an element. Diamonds are pure crystallized (compressed) carbon so I'm guessing they figured its made out of diamonds based on the mass of the planet they found, or something like.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraunhofer_lines
Sarmea Moon
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#14 - 2012-10-12 15:15:26 UTC
Eugene Kerner wrote:
highonpop wrote:
I've always wondered how viewing a spec of light through a telescope and observing it size and orbit can tell you that its made of diamonds and not made of regular rocks.


Thats the reason why you play too much Eve and others do the science.



Bullocks. It's all fantasy. Might as well play EvE, since science is just another religion. I have proof!!!

Proof I tell you!!!!

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Vokcel Jamagh
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#15 - 2012-10-12 15:17:16 UTC
Damn it.. you know, just when we get to it, start to mine it, suddenly.... there is a hissing sound behind you, turn around thatssss sssome nice diamondsss you have... it would be a ssshame if sssomething happened to them BOOM.


Or you get some lag and fall into the damned lava.
the stand
The Organization of Fire and Steel
Elementium Alliance
#16 - 2012-10-12 16:11:37 UTC
You might not have to go so far to find an abundance of diamonds. Apparently, it rains diamonds on some planets in our solar system. http://www.spacedaily.com/news/carbon-99d.html
Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#17 - 2012-10-12 16:49:36 UTC
Don't tell wife, do tell mother in law, hopefully she'll take wife with her

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#18 - 2012-10-12 17:37:19 UTC
That one's the closest but we've found diamond planets before... even a planet that looks like Hoth except the ice is about 5000 degrees Shocked

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ShiftyMcFly's Second Cousin
Doomheim
#19 - 2012-10-12 17:41:19 UTC
The surface temp is a bit high to go visit.

Titanium boxers might help.
Kitty Bear
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#20 - 2012-10-12 17:50:04 UTC
its the 2nd one so far i think

the last one was the size of Jupiter or somesuch.



exoplanets in general diagram ..
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