A Plannet full of Diamonds.

There is a saying ‘If diamonds were as plentiful as pebbles we shouldn't stoop to pick them up.’ But is there any place where diamonds are as plentiful as pebbles? Yes, at least the scientists are saying such. (Reuters has published the news).

It’s actually a planet by name “55 Cancri e” orbiting a star in Cancer constellation.

Its mass is about 7.8 Earth masses and its diameter is about twice that of Earth's. "55 Cancri e" was discovered on August 30, 2004 but its discovery was challenged in 2005. Recently further information about the plannet has been given by the scientists. The most interesting information is that at least a third of the planet's mass, the equivalent of about three Earth masses, could be diamond (Estimated by a study - with Olivier Mousis at the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planetologie in Toulouse, France ).

"The surface of this planet is likely covered in graphite and diamond rather than water and granite," said Nikku Madhusudhan, the Yale researcher whose findings are due to be published in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters.

"This is our first glimpse of a rocky world with a fundamentally different chemistry from Earth," Madhusudhan said, adding that the discovery of the carbon-rich planet meant distant rocky planets could no longer be assumed to have chemical constituents, interiors, atmospheres, or biologies similar to Earth.

Reading up to this if diamond lovers are thinking of a voyage for excavating the diamonds present in the planet here is another information about  ‘55 Cancri e’. Its surface temperature is about 1,648 degree Celsius (3,900 degrees Fahrenheit)