Pith Number

pith:5KFILUJE

pith:2026:5KFILUJET4KDRPQS5M5UIXF5DR

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Length of Martian Crater Rays and Their Relation to Lunar Cold Spots

Alexandria V. Johnson, Brandon C. Johnson, David Minton, Trevor P. Erwin

arxiv:2608.02492 v1 · 2026-08-03 · astro-ph.EP · physics.space-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5KFILUJET4KDRPQS5M5UIXF5DR}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-08-04T02:43:47.503626Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ea8a85d1249f1438be12eb3b445cbd1c7868e5e3cfd98adb628aef0636869d66

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.02492 · arxiv_version: 2608.02492v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.02492 · pith_short_12: 5KFILUJET4KD · pith_short_16: 5KFILUJET4KDRPQS · pith_short_8: 5KFILUJE

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5KFILUJET4KDRPQS5M5UIXF5DR \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: ea8a85d1249f1438be12eb3b445cbd1c7868e5e3cfd98adb628aef0636869d66

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a8de992197dd7fb7329257f272e59e8124e14d7c1c6a5dffa11837432254fcec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.space-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-03T16:56:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "56dd635295afeb1552ad1d21d1a839f4af2bb6ca4178c3ee309797ed22086f5f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.02492",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}