FIU professor: Ancient diamonds fell from space: A Florida International University professor has a lost-in-space theory about black diamonds.(Florida International University professor, Stephen Haggerty)

From: Miami Herald (Miami, FL) | Date: February 13, 2007| Author: Bierman, Noah | Copyright information

Byline: Noah Bierman

Feb. 13--Professor Stephen Haggerty retrieves a 730-carat black diamond -- the size of an apple -- from his desk. It's nearly impossible to cut, potentially billions of years old and, he believes, a product of outer space. Haggerty, 68, is a man driven by diamonds to far and dangerous places -- Siberia, where he met his wife; the Ivory Coast; Sierra Leone; Liberia. But he is entranced neither by diamonds' beauty nor their cash value. He gives his...

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