Pith Number

pith:UZMYZK64

pith:2018:UZMYZK64UZKW7GKFQAR3CI7T3W

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The mid-plane of the Main Asteroid Belt

Renu Malhotra, Saverio Cambioni

arxiv:1801.08096 v1 · 2018-01-24 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UZMYZK64UZKW7GKFQAR3CI7T3W}

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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	2026-05-18T00:20:35.444133Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a6598cabdca6556f99458023b123f3ddb3d90f8d180cb134885a77472b853692

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.08096 · arxiv_version: 1801.08096v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.08096 · pith_short_12: UZMYZK64UZKW · pith_short_16: UZMYZK64UZKW7GKF · pith_short_8: UZMYZK64

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/UZMYZK64UZKW7GKFQAR3CI7T3W \
  | 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: a6598cabdca6556f99458023b123f3ddb3d90f8d180cb134885a77472b853692

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0239826fb57179e75e9f32783c617a5c4089bb142d27602b59331a0221a15a78",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-24T17:46:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "68d1b63f340eaf382393ed747527ae459f4cc6a3758af49d6dd837e1e49cfa37"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.08096",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}