Rare mystery diamonds came from outer space, scientists report

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Rare mystery diamonds came from outer space, scientists report | Boing Boing

Around 4.5 billion years ago, an asteroid likely collided with a dwarf planet spewing meteorites into space including some that contain a strange kind of diamond. Called lonsdaleite, these space di…

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Around 4.5 billion years ago, an asteroid likely collided with a dwarf planet spewing meteorites into space including some that contain a strange kind of diamond. Called lonsdaleite, these space diamonds has a hexagonal structure rather than the cubic structure of a typical diamond. Researchers form Australia's Monash University, RMIT University, and colleagues just confirmed the existence of the space diamonds in a meteorite and determined the natural process by which it formed.

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