Pith Number

pith:42WVMHCL

pith:2017:42WVMHCLYPWTEPPVJI6R6VVPKL

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Luminous Efficiency Estimates of Meteors -I. Uncertainty analysis

Dilini Subasinghe, Edward Stokan, Margaret Campbell-Brown

arxiv:1704.08656 v1 · 2017-04-27 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{42WVMHCLYPWTEPPVJI6R6VVPKL}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:45:27.230998Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e6ad561c4bc3ed323df54a3d1f56af52c394b1e028a4f1a7d31c8effd2f3369d

Aliases

arxiv: 1704.08656 · arxiv_version: 1704.08656v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1704.08656 · pith_short_12: 42WVMHCLYPWT · pith_short_16: 42WVMHCLYPWTEPPV · pith_short_8: 42WVMHCL

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/42WVMHCLYPWTEPPVJI6R6VVPKL \
  | 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: e6ad561c4bc3ed323df54a3d1f56af52c394b1e028a4f1a7d31c8effd2f3369d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5f2daebe3054609790ac057b1683eba1a90570c2d968ee7fb12b7ef60d547a4d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-04-27T16:59:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3533dea62eb5a9240fcd1ff8fd4d156a47422d4d7a316140e5c43be96a49d881"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1704.08656",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}