Pith Number

pith:3MRK3HJW

pith:2016:3MRK3HJWHUATCXWH6MFQQWLTBT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Fate of Debris in the Pluto-Charon System

Kaitlin M. Kratter, Rachel A. Smullen

arxiv:1609.08635 v2 · 2016-09-27 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3MRK3HJWHUATCXWH6MFQQWLTBT}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:38.593080Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db22ad9d363d01315ec7f30b0859730cdc4ca3ac18b0fd5c328ff5843f67998e

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.08635 · arxiv_version: 1609.08635v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.08635 · pith_short_12: 3MRK3HJWHUAT · pith_short_16: 3MRK3HJWHUATCXWH · pith_short_8: 3MRK3HJW

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/3MRK3HJWHUATCXWH6MFQQWLTBT \
  | 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: db22ad9d363d01315ec7f30b0859730cdc4ca3ac18b0fd5c328ff5843f67998e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "29edd482cf44a2dc08f0c22ba3c80b817dad1542097a1e1294c782382742a969",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-27T20:00:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "39042951f7155bf7f90b1dfe6eae27c879b579a72ba1234d1b1fb6c3cd9b4d72"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.08635",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}