Pith Number

pith:3KN25VSK

pith:2020:3KN25VSK7BX54SER7SCGHX26G4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The science enabled by a dedicated solar system space telescope

Amanda Hendrix, Bryan J. Holler, Cindy L. Young, David MacDonnell, Edward Wishnow, Faith Vilas, Franck Marchis, Gregory Delory, Gregory Holsclaw, Imke de Pater, Janet Luhmann, Javier Peralta, Jim Bell, John Clarke, John Spencer, Joseph Pitman, Joshua Colwell, Kandis L. Jessup, Kunio M. Sayanagi, Kurt Retherford, Leigh N. Fletcher, Lori Feaga, Lynn Bowman, Melissa McGrath, Michael H. Wong, Michael J. Poston, Michael S.P. Kelley, Nancy Chanover, Nicholas Schneider, Oswald Siegmund, Richard Cartwright, Robert Lillis, Ronald J. Vervack Jr., Rosaly M.C. Lopes, Shannon Curry, Stephanie Milam, Thomas Greathouse, Tracy Becker

arxiv:2008.08069 v1 · 2020-08-18 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3KN25VSK7BX54SER7SCGHX26G4}

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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	2026-07-05T01:27:58.597838Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

da9baed64af86fde4891fc8463df5e3720c83076ec8f1ff1b1c4a4abe554f7c7

Aliases

arxiv: 2008.08069 · arxiv_version: 2008.08069v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2008.08069 · pith_short_12: 3KN25VSK7BX5 · pith_short_16: 3KN25VSK7BX54SER · pith_short_8: 3KN25VSK

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/3KN25VSK7BX54SER7SCGHX26G4 \
  | 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: da9baed64af86fde4891fc8463df5e3720c83076ec8f1ff1b1c4a4abe554f7c7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a6b39e80ce3e679518d6120404646ea62518f3bde94eb6fdc00c597f8d3dc3c9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.EP"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2020-08-18T17:50:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4cb257d6abe06ce1d2a3276dabd24eea32926437036ef58dc08bb928e0d657e4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2008.08069",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}