On Oct 12, 5:08*pm, "G=EMC^2" wrote:
On Oct 12, 1:20*am, Yousuf Khan wrote:

The whole planet is 8 times the mass of Earth, but it has a diamond
layer thought to be 3 times the mass of Earth.

* * * * Yousuf Khan

A diamond bigger than Earth? | Reutershttp://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/11/us-space-diamond-planet-idU...

Its not a diamond its a buckyball planet. *Bucky Balls and Diamonds
are two sides to the same coin.Aliens make great use of buckyballs,and
its about time humankind put them to use. *TreBert

Pure carbon is very useful stuff. Lunar black diamond (aka carbonado)
is mostly carbon but also paramagnetic, like the many samples I happen
to own.