December 2020 - Lab Grown Magazine

December 2020 | The Lab Grown Diamond Resource Book 26 To advertise call (888) 832-1109 | December 2020 27 “Comets often visit our skies, but never before has any material from a comet been found on Earth,” noted Professor David Block of Wits University. “Perhaps all com- ets have silicon yellow glass or diamonds, we just don’t know.” The sands of time reveal other grainy dia- mond discoveries. A Saudi Arabian govern- mental group recently found a large meteor- ite encased with millions of gem-quality dia- mond carats baked into its structure. Accord- ing to the scientists involved, the large size of diamond deposits formed inside the lumps Artist rendering of an asterioid exploding in the atmosphere, send- ing space fragements to the Earth, creating diamonds of various sizes and qualities. (Image: Ohio Museum of Natural History) Left to right: Uranus and Neptune, the solar system's giant ice planets, may contain trillions of pure natural diamonds near their core. (Image: The UK Science Museum) of rock had a curious core… like a planet. If they are right, these diamonds came from an ancient planet that must have existed when our solar system was in formation. The rea- son this news is so surprising is that it adds to a heated global debate on the birth of the universe. Not to be outshined, another asteroid near- ly slammed into the Nubian desert of north- ern Sudan. On 7 October 2008, the TC3 diamond-infused meteorite exploded just above ground in a dazzling display of dia- mond and mineral fireworks.