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02-14-2004, 08:20 AM
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This guy has posted so much, his fingers are about to fall off.
Join Date: Nov 2000
Location: In Absentia
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We Can Add This to the Battleship & Rocky Sculpture....
If we all pitch in...
Astronomers spy 10 billion trillion trillion-carat diamond The Associated Press Last Updated 3:06 p.m. PST Friday, February 13, 2004 LOS ANGELES (AP) - If anyone's ever promised you the sun, the moon and the stars, tell 'em you'll settle for BPM 37093. The heart of that burned-out star with the no-nonsense name is a sparkling diamond that weighs a staggering 10 billion trillion trillion carats. That's one followed by 34 zeros. The hunk of celestial bling is an estimated 2,500 miles across, said Travis Metcalfe, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. "You would need a jeweler's loupe the size of the sun to grade this diamond," said Metcalfe, who led the team that discovered the gem. The diamond is a massive chunk of crystallized carbon that lies about 300 trillion miles from Earth, in the constellation Centaurus. The galaxy's largest diamond is formally known as a white dwarf, or the hot core of a dead sun. Astronomers have suspected for decades that white dwarfs crystallized, but only recently were able to verify the hypothesis. A paper detailing the discovery has been submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters for publication.
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02-14-2004, 08:23 AM
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lolzcat
Join Date: Oct 2000
Location: Annapolis, Md
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Nice. Would make a good forum descriptor... instead of "Grizzled Veteran" and such. |
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