Lucky February 13, 2019 This day in history
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Started by metmike - Feb. 13, 2019, 12:41 p.m.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_13

1961 – An allegedly 500,000-year-old rock is discovered near Olancha, California, US, that appears to anachronistically encase a spark plug................fake news.


1979 – An intense windstorm strikes western Washington and sinks a 1/2-mile-long section of the Hood Canal Bridge......I get the natural disasters.


2004 – The Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics announces the discovery of the universe's largest known diamond, white dwarf star BPM 37093. Astronomers named this star "Lucy" after The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds".

Good one for you, eh, silverspiker!


BPM 37093

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BPM_37093

Other work gives a crystallized mass fraction of between 32% and 82%.[5]  Any of these estimates would result in a total crystalline mass in excess of 5×1029 kilograms.

 

Body-centered cubic lattice

Crystallization of the material of a white dwarf of this type is thought to result in a body-centered cubic lattice of carbon and/or oxygen nuclei, which are surrounded by a Fermi sea of electrons.[12]

Nickname and press coverage

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By carlberky - Feb. 13, 2019, 1:24 p.m.
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•Since a diamond also consists of crystallized carbon, the star BPM 37093 has been nicknamed Lucy after The Beatles' hit Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.

Wow! That thing would put DeBeers out of busness in a hurry!

By metmike - Feb. 13, 2019, 1:24 p.m.
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Lucy in the skies with the refrain/chorus missing:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RoA0QTZ-bM&start_radio=1&list=RD2RoA0QTZ-bM&t=232

Song structure

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_structure


JP can tell us more.