Pith Number

pith:BDOYMMB6

pith:2020:BDOYMMB6ANHNT5OYYNQSPMZXH5

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Small Bodies Tell the Story of the Solar System: A Scientific Rationale for a Multi-Target Small Body Sample Return Program including the Earth-based Laboratory Analysis of Returned Samples

Dennis Bodewits, Devanshu Jha, Larry Nittler, Maitrayee Bose, Marc Fries, Michelle Thompson, Prajkta Mane, Scott Sandford, Seth A. Jacobson

arxiv:2007.08603 v1 · 2020-07-16 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BDOYMMB6ANHNT5OYYNQSPMZXH5}

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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	2026-07-05T01:19:54.822265Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

08dd86303e034ed9f5d8c36127b3373f443809621b5e17b181b25f158696022b

Aliases

arxiv: 2007.08603 · arxiv_version: 2007.08603v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2007.08603 · pith_short_12: BDOYMMB6ANHN · pith_short_16: BDOYMMB6ANHNT5OY · pith_short_8: BDOYMMB6

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/BDOYMMB6ANHNT5OYYNQSPMZXH5 \
  | 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: 08dd86303e034ed9f5d8c36127b3373f443809621b5e17b181b25f158696022b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9d68b1f5cf25e231f039cf1384ab727722e34c2e6750884e6e5da1b1aadfbbc7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.EP"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2020-07-16T20:02:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d901bf491683a3ef23dc39ff104534285f48805d7f4231fa9fbb708497511322"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2007.08603",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}