diamonds

Have you heard the old cliche "Finders keepers, losers weepers?" Well, that is the motto of Arkansas' Crater of Diamonds State Park. The only public diamond mine in the World! Tana Clymer of Oklahoma City is very familiar with that saying. She recently found a 3.85 carat diamond at the park.

In the most stunning piece of planetary news since Pluto’s sad demotion, astronomers have found a star-orbiting land mass that is so dense its carbon is crystalline — which means it’s basically a planet made out of diamonds.