Pith Number

pith:4SVOI4KI

pith:2018:4SVOI4KIMHCQSAYVRYHZJHNGHJ

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The formation mechanism of 4179 Toutatis' elongated bi-lobed structure in a close Earth encounter scenario

Derek C. Richardson, Jianghui Ji, Shoucun Hu, Yuhui Zhao, Yun Zhang

arxiv:1804.07336 v1 · 2018-04-19 · astro-ph.EP

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\pithnumber{4SVOI4KIMHCQSAYVRYHZJHNGHJ}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:17:02.959966Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e4aae4714861c50903158e0f949da63a57a16f303b7015c8d07a99a05f294019

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.07336 · arxiv_version: 1804.07336v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.07336 · pith_short_12: 4SVOI4KIMHCQ · pith_short_16: 4SVOI4KIMHCQSAYV · pith_short_8: 4SVOI4KI

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/4SVOI4KIMHCQSAYVRYHZJHNGHJ \
  | 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: e4aae4714861c50903158e0f949da63a57a16f303b7015c8d07a99a05f294019

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5663787b53932403695c731b55b2116405984c7ef6b282606e110ec7fbb4d7f8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-19T18:56:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6bc575d946ffde33119813c960eafb79c09a944dfef85fc53a9f06d441c014ed"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.07336",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}