Pith Number

pith:3HTV5UBX

pith:2017:3HTV5UBXH3ZUQ2I75RYDGEK4J5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A binary main belt comet

David Jewitt, Harold Weaver, Jessica Agarwal, Max Mutchler, Stephen Larson

arxiv:1710.03454 v1 · 2017-10-10 · astro-ph.EP

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3HTV5UBXH3ZUQ2I75RYDGEK4J5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:33:11.876561Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d9e75ed0373ef348691fec7033115c4f5aa13b85c88245f87ac32fd87ec909a7

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.03454 · arxiv_version: 1710.03454v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.03454 · pith_short_12: 3HTV5UBXH3ZU · pith_short_16: 3HTV5UBXH3ZUQ2I7 · pith_short_8: 3HTV5UBX

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/3HTV5UBXH3ZUQ2I75RYDGEK4J5 \
  | 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: d9e75ed0373ef348691fec7033115c4f5aa13b85c88245f87ac32fd87ec909a7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ba08fc3cabd311b75d2eb4d90f4289f1ef7c003937d00c4ab9080c7e99850cc8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-10T08:52:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "37120b707f94a470ad6dcf0b177ddfcee1bed8dcc5e0aa3d4670bbee4bb2f834"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.03454",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}