ajnl Posted October 11, 2012 Posted October 11, 2012 Well at least partly made of diamonds. The planet is covered in mainly carbon (diamonds are also made of carbon) and they found that the carbon is actually in diamond form. It has about twice the radius of the earth and is also made up of iron, silicon, and silicates. At least a third of the planet's mass is likely pure diamond. They first thought this planet had a similar atmosphere make up to the Earth and because of this thought that it had super-critical fluids "oozing" on the planet surface. But since they found out that it does not have a similar atmosphere, they are pretty sure it does not have any water. Name: 55 Cancri Mass: 8 times Earth's mass = 8 * 5.9722*10^24 = 4.77776*10^25kg = 1.05331578*10^26 lbs Orbit period: 18 hours Surface Temperature: 3,900 degrees F (2,100 degrees C) Radius: 2*Earth's Radius = 2*6,384km = 12,768km = 7,933.67 miles So yeah, it is a pretty interesting read about this planet. If they ever found a way to bring it to Earth, I wonder if that would decrease or increase the price of Diamonds. I mean they could also sell it as "alien diamonds" and make it even more expensive then a "earth-diamond". Source 55 Cancri e Wikipedia Page 1 Quote
ajnl Posted October 12, 2012 Author Posted October 12, 2012 Imma steal it in that case, we kindly request a $5 billion donation Quote
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