The joint team of American and French scientists has discovered a planet outside the solar system with a surface covered with graphite and diamonds.
Super-Earth Planet is twice the size of the planet Earth with temperatures reaching 3,900 degrees Fahrenheit. The planet discovered in 2004 is believed to be formed from carbon that turns into diamonds and graphite.
The planet, named Cancri e, has a mass eight times larger than the planet Earth and one-third thought to consist of diamonds.
In accordance with the current diamond market value, 55 Cancri e will be worth the US $ 26.9 nonillion, which is about 384 quintillion times more than the GDP of all countries on Earth, which is 'only' about the US $ 74 trillion.
According to Forbes, it only needs to mine 0.182 percent of 55 Cancri e located at the coordinates of sky map 08h 52m 35.8s, + 28 ° 19 '51 ", was able to repay the debt of all governments in the world. Investors should note that this potential mining project only takes 40 light years of travel and a bonus of scientific controversy.
The planet is one of five planets found around the star '55 Cancri '. a solar-like star 40 light-years away from Earth. Being in the constellation Cancer, scientists say that the star can be seen with the naked eye.
Astronomers first saw the planet last year as it transited on its orbited star, allowing them to measure the planet's radius for the first time. Using the information, as well as the latest estimate of planetary mass, the researchers used computer modeling to speculate on the chemical composition of the planet.
Previous research has shown that Cancri star 55 has more carbon content than oxygen, making the US-French joint team believe that large amounts of carbon and silicon carbide, with little ice water, exist in the formation of the planet.
Astronomers initially assumed that the chemical composition of the diamond planet was similar to Earth and that the Cancer contains a very substantial quantity of hot water.
However, according to researchers from Yale University, Nikku Madhusudhan, the most recent research shows that the planet contains no water at all and is made up mostly of carbon, such as graphite and diamond, and also iron, silicon carbide and possibly some silicates.
The identification of a planet called Super Earth, which is carbon-rich, suggests that scientists can no longer assume that all of the distant rocky planets have chemical compounds, interiors, atmospheres or biological properties similar to the Earth, according to Madhusudhan.
Thus, there is the possibility that there are still many planets with gemstones out there.
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