Pith Number

pith:S2ZPD2CM

pith:2017:S2ZPD2CML6S5R46NMOF2NSLU6X

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

CO-Driven Activity in Comet C/2017 K2 (PANSTARRS)

Eugene Magnier, Eva Lilly, Haynes Stephens, Heather Flewelling, Jacqueline V. Keane, James Bauer, Jan T. Kleyna, Karen J. Meech, Kenneth C. Chambers, Larry Denneau, Marco Micheli, Olivier Hainaut, Richard Wainscoat, Robert Jedicke, Robert Weryk

arxiv:1710.03876 v1 · 2017-10-11 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S2ZPD2CML6S5R46NMOF2NSLU6X}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:31:39.590256Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

96b2f1e84c5fa5d8f3cd638ba6c974f5e1c0a3941ac4834531954a4f98e2f136

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.03876 · arxiv_version: 1710.03876v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.03876 · pith_short_12: S2ZPD2CML6S5 · pith_short_16: S2ZPD2CML6S5R46N · pith_short_8: S2ZPD2CM

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/S2ZPD2CML6S5R46NMOF2NSLU6X \
  | 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: 96b2f1e84c5fa5d8f3cd638ba6c974f5e1c0a3941ac4834531954a4f98e2f136

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b1068b3139340b7a04177a88909a3feac91cc9b288f61fb6da8739a74b6649b0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-11T01:35:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7d76ca03c5be1830a181a864770b1e63c5b0c22d747e3afb666627151af659d4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.03876",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}