Press Coverage

February 8, 2005:

• National Geographic News:   "Diamond Planets" Hint at Dazzling Promise of Other Worlds
  Media Contact: Stefan Lovgren
  
  
• Space.com
  • Strange Miniature 'Solar Systems' Revealed
    Media Contact: Robert Roy Britt
    
    
  • Diamond Planets: Rich Possibilities for Other Worlds
    Media Contact: Robert Roy Britt
    
    
• CNN:   Astronomers: Planets may be Diamond Makers
  Copyright 2005 Reuters
  
  
• New Scientist
  • Brown dwarf may someday harbour habitable planets
    Media Contact: Hazel Muir
    
    
  • Carbon-rich planets may boast diamond interiors
    Media Contact: Jeff Hecht
    
    
• New York Times:   Planet-Forming Process May Be Playing Out in Miniature
  Media Contact: Dennis Overbye
  
  
• MSNBC News:   Some worlds might be rich with diamonds. 'Carbon planets' theoretically possible, scientists say
  Media Contact: Robert Roy Britt
  
  
• ABC News:   Telescope Sees Possible Mini Solar Systems
  Media Contact: John Antczak
  
  
• Astronomy magazine:   Micro-planets and mini-systems
  Media Contact: Robert Burnham
  
  
• REDNOVA News:   Astronomers Discover Beginnings of 'Mini' Solar System
  © Rednova 2005
  
  
• SpaceDaily
  • Carbon World's Could Sparkle Like Diamonds
    by Astrobiology Magazine
    
    
  • In The Stars: Odd Stars, Odder Planets
    Media Contact: Phil Berardelli
    
    
• EurekAlert!:   Scientists announce smallest extra-solar planet yet discovered
  Media Contact: Barbara K. Kennedy
  
  
• Spaceflight Now
  • Extrasolar planets may have diamond layers
    © 2005 Pole Star Publications Ltd
    
    
  • Beginnings of 'mini' solar system discovered
    Jet Propulsion Laboratory News Release
    
    
• Rense.com:  Scientists Gravitate Toward ET Notions
  Media Contact: Katy Human
  
  
• Bloomberg.com:  NASA Finds Smallest Body With Potential for Planets (Update1)
  ©2005 Bloomberg L.P.
  
  
• DenverPost.com
  • Astrophysicists' planetary finds are the stars of Aspen meeting
    Media Contact: Katy Human
    
    
  • Scientists gravitate toward E.T. notions
    Media Contact: Katy Human
    
    
• Penn State News:  Scientists Announce Smallest Extra-Solar Planet Yet Discovered and Find Outer Limits of the Pulsar Planetary System
  Media Contact: Barbara Kennedy
  
  
• Universe Today
  • Smallest Extrasolar Planet Found
    © IOP Publishing Ltd
    
    
  • Diamond Worlds Could Exist
    Original Source: NASA Astrobiology Story
    
    
  • Mini Solar System Around a Brown Dwarf
    Original Source: Spitzer News Release
    
    
• Physicsweb:  Astronomers find smallest exoplanet
  © IOP Publishing Ltd
  
  
• The Australian
  • Extra-solar planets may have diamond crust
    Copyright 2005 Reuters
    
    
  • Grandmother Earth
    Media Contact: Leigh Dayton
    
    
• Daily Times:  Planets may have layer of diamonds
  © 2005 Daily Times