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Diamonds are common in highly shocked ureilites, and most are thought to have been formed by the shock of the impact with either Earth or other bodies in space. [6] [8]: 264 However, much larger diamonds were found in fragments of a meteorite called Almahata Sitta, found in the Nubian Desert of Sudan.
Hot atmospheres could have iron rain, [107] molten-glass rain, [108] and rain made from rocky minerals such as enstatite, corundum, spinel, and wollastonite. [109] Deep in the atmospheres of gas giants, it could rain diamonds [ 110 ] and helium containing dissolved neon.
Astrosociology, sociology of outer space, or sociology of the universe [1] is the study of the relationship between outer space, extraterrestrial places, and the wider universe and society. It is an interdisciplinary study between space-related sciences and sociology that seeks to understand the impact of human society outside our current ...
For instance, they believe that it rains diamonds on those planets -- diamonds that sink into their interior and form a sparkly crust around their solid cores. Since it might take a long time ...
For links to specific lists of exoplanets see: List of exoplanets detected by microlensing; List of exoplanets detected by radial velocity; List of exoplanets detected by timing; List of directly imaged exoplanets; List of transiting exoplanets; List of nearest terrestrial exoplanet candidates; Online archives: NASA Exoplanet Archive
Scientists have finally discovered how sheets of diamond rain form on the ice giants, Neptune and Uranus. The answer could explain why Neptune’s core is hot. On Neptune and Uranus, Diamonds Rain ...
The collision of a dwarf planet and an asteroid 4.5 billion years ago resulted in space diamonds in meteorites eventually landing on Earth.
In February 2016, it was announced that NASA's Hubble Space Telescope had detected hydrogen cyanide, but no water vapor, in the atmosphere of 55 Cancri e, which is only possible if the atmosphere is predominantly hydrogen or helium. This is the first time the atmosphere of a super-Earth exoplanet was analyzed successfully.