Pith Number

pith:YXOYODA4

pith:2016:YXOYODA4HHLVS3LI5AXZN3VCMY

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The catastrophic fragmentation of Comet 332P (Ikeya-Murakami)

Harold A. Weaver, Jacqueline V. Keane, Jan T. Kleyna, Karen J. Meech, Man-To Hui, Marco Micheli, Quan-Zhi Ye, Richard Wainscoat

arxiv:1602.07569 v2 · 2016-02-24 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YXOYODA4HHLVS3LI5AXZN3VCMY}

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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	2026-05-18T01:07:53.865025Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c5dd870c1c39d7596d68e82f96eea2661bca856fa5f88a369cfa2c2fa4d18960

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.07569 · arxiv_version: 1602.07569v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.07569 · pith_short_12: YXOYODA4HHLV · pith_short_16: YXOYODA4HHLVS3LI · pith_short_8: YXOYODA4

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/YXOYODA4HHLVS3LI5AXZN3VCMY \
  | 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: c5dd870c1c39d7596d68e82f96eea2661bca856fa5f88a369cfa2c2fa4d18960

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4cde4a3550c6000ba4c5fa17e07d29454122fef2ce303e263deeb60cac6b079b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-24T15:46:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7bdde6cafeaf6b98450ccffc3998e202ba28b078d339208b805f531a23d367e3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.07569",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}