Pith Number

pith:3A67BCIJ

pith:2002:3A67BCIJSIKP6PRCRVBQT5Q7UE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Cosmic Distances: Current Odds and Future Perspectives

G. Bono

arxiv:astro-ph/0210068 v1 · 2002-10-02 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3A67BCIJSIKP6PRCRVBQT5Q7UE}

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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	2026-07-04T14:12:16.593882Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d83df089099214ff3e228d4309f61fa13b32092fd38252ac788337d05b6c49fe

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0210068 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0210068v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0210068 · pith_short_12: 3A67BCIJSIKP · pith_short_16: 3A67BCIJSIKP6PRC · pith_short_8: 3A67BCIJ

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/3A67BCIJSIKP6PRCRVBQT5Q7UE \
  | 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: d83df089099214ff3e228d4309f61fa13b32092fd38252ac788337d05b6c49fe

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6c12177dc175f72a0f12aaad88552dde4f5561312bd0690ad010ddc6ab5ce55b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-10-02T14:35:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a1da5a1eb707f52f5bf5b561641b6c5f3326cb360918cecd66e49231e8e154ec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0210068",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}