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jhecht.bsky.social @jhecht.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Oldest moon rocks from the far side of the moon show the inner solar system probably did not get started with a Late Heavy Bombardment skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

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Oldest Moon Rocks Found on the Lunar Farside

The 4-billion-year-old Moon rocks brought back from the farside of the Moon challenge ideas about what it was like in the early solar system.

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jhecht.bsky.social @jhecht.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Here's a new podcast about my book, Lasers, Death Rays, and the Long, Strange Quest for the Ultimate Weapon with Andrew Rubenstein of ShoreWindCapital that brings the story up to date. The Apple version is at podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... A Spotify version is open.spotify.com/episode/1pSo...

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TaleWind

Business Podcast · The TaleWind pod features interviews with authors of books related to science, technology, and business.

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jhecht.bsky.social @jhecht.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Signing up for @bot.astronomy.blue signup Read about the carbon-rich interstellar comet skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

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jhecht.bsky.social @jhecht.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

New interstellar comet is made of different stuff than solar system comets. skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne... The dust and gas around it are mostly carbon dioxide not water vapor found in solar system comets. The comet will be around until mid-2026, stay tuned for more.

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jhecht.bsky.social @jhecht.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

To put the war in Gaza in context, the National Archives records 58,220 U.S. military casualties in the Vietnam War www.archives.gov/research/mil... . The Guardian www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...? now reports the Gaze war has claimed "nearly 60,000 lives." We need peace now.

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Vietnam War U.S. Military Fatal Casualty Statistics

Electronic Records Reference Report Introduction The following tables were generated from the Vietnam Conflict Extract Data File of the Defense Casualty Analysis System (DCAS) Extract Files, which is ...

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jhecht.bsky.social @jhecht.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

Car-mageddon typo: As of this morning, the east-west Massachusetts Turnpike has been re-designated I-95 in a story in the Newton Beacon on a major road reconstruction project www.newtonbeacon.org/traffic-trib... Let's hope they fix it soon.

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Traffic Tribulation: Mass Pike work to bring Car-mageddon to region - Newton Beacon

You may think Memorial Day weekend is the biggest traffic headache of the season. Most years, you’d be right. This year, you’d be wrong. Next weekend, May 30 to June 2,work will begin on the [...]

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jhecht.bsky.social @jhecht.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Our lilacs are blooming here in the Boston area. What's blooming in your yard?

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jhecht.bsky.social @jhecht.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Looked out the back window this morning to see a beautiful wild turkey checking out our bird feeder and back yard. It's great to see them here in suburbia.

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jhecht.bsky.social @jhecht.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Kip Siegel, founder of KMS Fusion, died just over 50 years ago after suffering a stroke while trying to persuade Congress to support his company's laser fusion tech. Livermore now has ignited seven fusion targets. That's progress, but will fusion energy take 50 more years? alchetron.com/Kip-Siegel

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Kip Siegel - Alchetron, The Free Social Encyclopedia

Keeve M. (Kip) Siegel (19231975) was a US physicist. He was a professor of Physics at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI, and the founder of Conductron Corporation, a high tech producer of el...

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jhecht.bsky.social @jhecht.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Sky & Telescope is one of only five monthly magazines that has published regularly for 80 years. The February 2025 issue was number 1000, and I had a story in the that print issue on the theory that Earth may have had a ring in it. skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

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Did a Ring of Rocks and Dust Orbit Earth Before the Dinosaurs Roamed?

A team of scientists thinks a clustering of ancient impact craters points to a temporary ring around Earth hundreds of millions of years ago.

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jhecht.bsky.social @jhecht.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

In Against the Odds, John and Mary Gribbin say a lack of women's toilets held back women in science. In 1969 the Caltech faculty told a committee on admitting women undergraduates in 1969. A plumber could solve that problem, and the first women were admitted in 1971. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Against the odds: 12 women who beat bias to succeed in science

A book deftly highlights how women have been considered unsuitable as researchers for reasons other than their ability and commitment.

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jhecht.bsky.social @jhecht.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

The rusty dust on Mars is different than terrestrial rust. It's a different iron oxide ferrihydrite that isn't stable on Earth, but it can survive billions of years on Mars which is very much colder. Neat stuff skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

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Why Is Mars Red?

Martian dust is red because of rust — but the rust on Mars is not the same iron oxide mineral found on Earth.

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Christopher DiPiazza @chrisdipiazza.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

“Drop that baby!” My watercolor of Leptoceratops defends their young against Quetzalcoatlus. I do think smaller ceratopsians were punching above their weight class and made sure to convey it here. #paleoart #sciart

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jhecht.bsky.social @jhecht.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

What's the Kessler Syndrome. Here's what it can do in science fiction www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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The Clear Space Foundation

Making a sale.

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jhecht.bsky.social @jhecht.bsky.social · 22/02/2024

Vacuum tubes are back! Today I found the local electronics store is selling antiques -- vacuum tubes from the mid-20th century, many in their original boxes. I hadn't seen vacuum tubes on sale in a store for decades. Thanks to You-Do-It-Electronics for the blast from the past.

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