No Diamond-Water Paradox on 55 Cancri e
Posted on October 12, 2012 at 08:24 AM EDT
From Yahoo.com: The alien planet, a so-called “super-Earth,” is called 55 Cancri e and was discovered in 2004 around a nearby star in our Milky Way galaxy. After estimating the planet’s mass and radius, and studying its host star’s composition, scientists now say the rocky world is composed mainly of carbon (in the form of diamond [...]