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Extrasolar Planets, Planetary Formation

Carbon “Super Earths” – Diamond Planets

6 Dec , 2011 by Tammy Plotner

[/caption]During a laboratory experiment at Ohio State University, researchers were simulating the pressures and conditions necessary to form diamonds in the Earth’s mantle when they came across a surprise… A carbon “Super Earth” could exist. While endeavoring to understand how carbon might behave in other solar systems, they wondered if planets high in this element […]

Carbon-rich Planets, Diamond Planet, Planetary Formation

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