Pith Number

pith:2YAIYTTK

pith:2017:2YAIYTTKHB5HIBSYQVEOMRCOQ6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Comet Active Beyond the Crystallization Zone

David Jewitt, Harold Weaver, Jessic Agarwal, Jing Li, Man-To Hui, Max Mutchler

arxiv:1709.10079 v1 · 2017-09-28 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2YAIYTTKHB5HIBSYQVEOMRCOQ6}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:47.849288Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d6008c4e6a387a7406588548e6444e87a9f3b442d9e594b3ae814dc44ee79366

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.10079 · arxiv_version: 1709.10079v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.10079 · pith_short_12: 2YAIYTTKHB5H · pith_short_16: 2YAIYTTKHB5HIBSY · pith_short_8: 2YAIYTTK

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/2YAIYTTKHB5HIBSYQVEOMRCOQ6 \
  | 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: d6008c4e6a387a7406588548e6444e87a9f3b442d9e594b3ae814dc44ee79366

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2260dd218105528c734ebf8edd75922d2d23ac4ce3f8fdabae6473475d2b77f3",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-28T17:41:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7f67bdee250305cec15b0adbebdb222f9e05ed9ae9b091e19b05e3c9165f841c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.10079",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}