Pith Number

pith:4C5AOIES

pith:2017:4C5AOIESORLKGUYQG4KVSPG4WT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Pluto System After New Horizons

Harold A. Weaver, Leslie A. Young, S. Alan Stern, William B. McKinnon, William Grundy

arxiv:1712.05669 v1 · 2017-12-15 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4C5AOIESORLKGUYQG4KVSPG4WT}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:03:09.079894Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e0ba0720927456a353103715593cdcb4c2d7e421e0624ddfb1ce00a6e13857eb

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.05669 · arxiv_version: 1712.05669v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.05669 · pith_short_12: 4C5AOIESORLK · pith_short_16: 4C5AOIESORLKGUYQ · pith_short_8: 4C5AOIES

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/4C5AOIESORLKGUYQG4KVSPG4WT \
  | 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: e0ba0720927456a353103715593cdcb4c2d7e421e0624ddfb1ce00a6e13857eb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6448b4a053d7e99a080339be43aac4625f0fc510198b5cee8fcbad3240d96a03",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-15T13:44:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9969f9680ac484b76cc58898690866f142eea03b73effc4fb4880456c4f8e1ea"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.05669",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}