Pith Number

pith:43M3ZK3G

pith:2017:43M3ZK3GFR6JDIK43E56SZGO2J

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Black Holes and Vacuum Cleaners: Using Metaphor, Relevance, and Inquiry in Labels for Space Images

Benjamin K. Smith, Jay Bookbinder, Jeffrey K. Smith, Kimberly Kowal Arcand, Lisa F. Smith, Randall K. Smith

arxiv:1703.02927 v1 · 2017-03-06 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.HE · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{43M3ZK3GFR6JDIK43E56SZGO2J}

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The Social Sciences Interdisciplinarity for Astronomy and Astrophysics -- Lessons from the History of NASA and Related Fields

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T00:49:05.299911Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e6d9bcab662c7c91a15cd93be964ced24fb92bd0c47ed6bd006cd5c5d55a4608

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.02927 · arxiv_version: 1703.02927v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.02927 · pith_short_12: 43M3ZK3GFR6J · pith_short_16: 43M3ZK3GFR6JDIK4 · pith_short_8: 43M3ZK3G

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/43M3ZK3GFR6JDIK43E56SZGO2J \
  | 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: e6d9bcab662c7c91a15cd93be964ced24fb92bd0c47ed6bd006cd5c5d55a4608

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4680c7df6891d6d4eae6d72386e5e84fc6fa90ae1b346fb1f237d257cb4b1d0d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.HE",
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-06T19:13:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f46f23e1bf95f9ce0c48f423e1b149913b73ee8afbea9523e56275c6361af010"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.02927",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}