Pith Number

pith:G5L42DYC

pith:2011:G5L42DYCFAHYI3GY5FT7HWIZM6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Asteroid (4) Vesta

Carol A. Raymond, Christopher T. Russell, Dennis Bodewits, Jian-Yang Li, Lori M. Feaga, Lucy A. McFadden, Max J. Mutchler, Michael F. A'Hearn, Wayne Landsman

arxiv:1110.4113 v1 · 2011-10-18 · astro-ph.EP

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\pithnumber{G5L42DYCFAHYI3GY5FT7HWIZM6}

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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	2026-05-18T03:16:38.763483Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3757cd0f02280f846cd8e967f3d91967ba39b34c0c949c1bd2d2cd80aa1781ef

Aliases

arxiv: 1110.4113 · arxiv_version: 1110.4113v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1110.4113 · pith_short_12: G5L42DYCFAHY · pith_short_16: G5L42DYCFAHYI3GY · pith_short_8: G5L42DYC

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/G5L42DYCFAHYI3GY5FT7HWIZM6 \
  | 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: 3757cd0f02280f846cd8e967f3d91967ba39b34c0c949c1bd2d2cd80aa1781ef

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b817ed8dd431cee01e4e4ebca32d830e980c07315d84c23fe0ef5ab0a53d35a5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2011-10-18T20:05:25Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "997cf800497b092aedd21e18fca9a0013e564eea03993f452b51db6822b86439"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1110.4113",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}