Pith Number

pith:5BCE6KES

pith:2024:5BCE6KES2MJTLTT3BE6CX74FUK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Discovery and Evolution of a Possible New Epoch of Cometary Activity by the Centaur (2060) Chiron

Alan Fitzsimmons, A. N. Heinze, Anne J. Verbiscer, Aren Beck, Charles Schambeau, David. R. Young, Edward Gomez, Emmanuel Jehin, Grigori Fedorets, Henry Weiland, Joey Chatelain, John L. Tonry, Joseph Murtagh, Ken W. Smith, Larry Denneau, Luke J. Shingles, Marin Ferrais, Matthew M. Dobson, Megan E. Schwamb, Michael S. P. Kelley, Nicolas Erasmus, Pedro H. Bernardinelli, Rene Duffard, Robert J. Siverd, Sarah Greenstreet, Susan D. Benecchi, Tim Lister

arxiv:2407.14410 v1 · 2024-07-19 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5BCE6KES2MJTLTT3BE6CX74FUK}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T08:46:12.357692Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e8444f2892d31335ce7b093c2bff85a29978e0bccf60e6a0448542a624ed6f62

Aliases

arxiv: 2407.14410 · arxiv_version: 2407.14410v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2407.14410 · pith_short_12: 5BCE6KES2MJT · pith_short_16: 5BCE6KES2MJTLTT3 · pith_short_8: 5BCE6KES

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/5BCE6KES2MJTLTT3BE6CX74FUK \
  | 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: e8444f2892d31335ce7b093c2bff85a29978e0bccf60e6a0448542a624ed6f62

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ec8d2f3e940a9442185da523bacce4e84a3952c828f16c0936b5893cd45666d8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2024-07-19T15:36:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e35775afc9f583278fb570784ceb081f45fa80187d7f5738f32ca7f64ca3a22"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2407.14410",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}