55 Cancri facts
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55 Cancri E: a planet 8 times the size of Earth with a surface made almost entirely of pure diamond. The total amount of diamond would be worth 26.9 nonillion U.S. dollars. That's 30 zeroes.
"55 Cancri e" is planet made mostly of DIAMOND 40ly away from us, and it's twice the size of Earth
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Planet 55 Cancri e located 40 light years away in the constellation of Cancer is likely covered in Diamonds and Graphite with a Carbon rich atmosphere making it a "Diamond Planet
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There is an exoplanet roughly twice the size of earth. It's called 55 Cancri E, and its crust is made of 2,500 miles of diamond.
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There is a planet called "55 Cancri E" which has 9x more mass than the earth and is made nearly entirely of Diamond
