Pith Number

pith:DUR6KK5W

pith:2025:DUR6KK5WH4LZLOKIOS3AQTWRBK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Capture of Interstellar Objects and Binaries

Gongjie Li, James J. Wray, Rainer Marquardt-Demen

arxiv:2509.05905 v1 · 2025-09-07 · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DUR6KK5WH4LZLOKIOS3AQTWRBK}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-05T12:06:26.260660Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1d23e52bb63f1795b94874b6084ed10ab15598cedfd45133554d93cd9aa5529c

Aliases

arxiv: 2509.05905 · arxiv_version: 2509.05905v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2509.05905 · pith_short_12: DUR6KK5WH4LZ · pith_short_16: DUR6KK5WH4LZLOKI · pith_short_8: DUR6KK5W

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/DUR6KK5WH4LZLOKIOS3AQTWRBK \
  | 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: 1d23e52bb63f1795b94874b6084ed10ab15598cedfd45133554d93cd9aa5529c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ae87861fe28426bc12948d4e914bc33014d2b2f7653c47e6492473282864f044",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.GA"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2025-09-07T03:13:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9e8b4dd0a648c3578015f2b5f3e8e8c6ff8d4b0f140871d0f7468c3d0bcc0645"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2509.05905",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}