A meteorite loaded with diamonds came to Earth

In 2008 one of the NASA telescopes discovered an asteroid four meters in diameter which they named 2008 TC3. Some time later that meteorite fell to Earth, specifically in the Nubian desert in Sudan. The funny thing is that it was full of diamonds.

After a series of analyzes, scientists from Switzerland, France and Germany indicated that the remains discovered could correspond to a "lost planet" that existed during the formation of the Solar System, and that could be as large as Mars or Mercury.

The researchers noted that these diamonds were formed by a pressure of about 20 gigapascals, which corresponds to the pressure in the division between the mantle and the core of the planet Mars, according to The Guardian.

"The simulations have suggested that the primitive Solar System had dozens of these embryonic planets that collided with each other to form the terrestrial planets, but have evidence of one of them? I did not expect that, "said Farhang Nabiei, part of the research team at the Federal Institute of Technology in Lausanne, Switzerland.

"We are doing archeology, looking at the past and trying to decipher the history of the Solar System," said Philippe Gillet, lead author of the study.

The curious planet or protoplaneta, would have formed at the beginning of the Solar System, which experts describe as "chaotic", due to the number of interplanetary collisions and that allowed the formation of planets and satellites, of which, currently only survived the four first of the system.

Photos: Nasa