Thanks, Danik. I can't find any reference to diamonds in earth sky.org, but I still feel I had read something about this in a post somewhere.
Thanks, Danik. I can't find any reference to diamonds in earth sky.org, but I still feel I had read something about this in a post somewhere.
DW
I found several references to the "diamond rain", though I didn´t look specifically in earth.sky. org. Most of the links I found are from former years, so you must have read about it indeed.
Here is a recent link about scientists recreating the diamond rain in a lab:
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-scient...icy-giant.html
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Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Thanks for the link, Danik. This is pretty good. The article talks about diamond rain as being far inside the icy planets and their moons, so its about right I would say.
Again it seems that the physical concepts we learned at school, don´t work for other celestial bodies.
"A new hot Neptune may be a massive water world
HAT-P-26b is a steamy, steamy world."
http://www.astronomy.com/news/2017/0...may-host-water
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Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
That's right. There is clearly a huge diversity of planets, they can't be classified by what we have in the solar system.
Watch Asteroid "Florence" as it glides past Earth: https://www.universetoday.com/136981...earth-weekend/. It is pretty big, about 4.4 kilometres across. No danger of it crashing on earth, though.
Florence looks quite impressive. I hope it behaves well.
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Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
I'm pretty sure it will, its a long way from Earth and these days close attention is paid to all sizeable space rocks caught in orbit of the sun.
The Centre for Near-Earth Object Studies at NASA is an organisation that follows this: https://cneos.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news198.html
It is not clear how this sub-unit of NASA works. It may only have a couple of people keeping it going, with more drawn in if there should be an emergency. And does it consults with a Russian equivelent? Just a few years ago there was a meteor that grazed low over a Russian town. See the Chelybinsk Meteor: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteor. In 1908 a large area of Russian forest was flattened: see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event. This would be a good area for US/Russian collaboration.
Neither do I, DW. I only imagine that keeping this units must cost a lot of money.
I also have no idea about how the colaboration of astronomers US/Russia is today.
Just found this:
https://www.scientificamerican.com/a...enus-together/
So there is some colaboration.
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"I seemed to have sensed also from an early age that some of my experiences as a reader would change me more as a person than would many an event in the world where I sat and read. "
Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
That was in interesting link, Danik. The USSR sent several probes to Venus before the USSR collapsed. So its a good thing to see the research continued in collaboration between Russia and the USA.
Specially considering the current international political positions of both countries, I think.
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Gerald Murnane, Tamarisk Row
Absolutely!
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