14-August-2007, 03:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Arneb
[bludgeoning mode]First diamond found in a meteorite?[/bludgeoning mode]
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Why bludgeoning, it was stated in Eroica's link?
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Originally Posted by article
In 1987, Zinner, his Washington University colleagues and a group of scientists at the University of Chicago found the first stardust in a meteorite. Those presolar grains were specks of diamond and silicon carbide.
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The sites I read, however, did not mention the silicon carbide, only microscopic grains of diamond. This was the first evidence for substance originally coming from outside our solar system (presolar grains). Hence, these diamonds cam from afar ("a fire" is phonetically the same as “afar” in west Texas slang.)
You’re up, Arneb.
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Lighten up! This is a stellar board! Author: duh.
"The Sun, with all the planets revolving around it, and depending on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as though it had nothing else in the universe to do..." Author: Galileo supposedly.
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