Pith Number

pith:5CV5WMW5

pith:2018:5CV5WMW5MPSSKG5XBG3YPJVRRS

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Laser and Radio Tracking for Planetary Science Missions - A Comparison

Bert Vermeersen, Dominic Dirkx, Ivan Prochazka, Leonid I. Gurvits, Pieter Visser, Ron Noomen, Sven Bauer

arxiv:1807.08932 v1 · 2018-07-24 · astro-ph.EP · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5CV5WMW5MPSSKG5XBG3YPJVRRS}

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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	2026-05-18T00:09:57.359843Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e8abdb32dd63e5251bb709b787a6b18c9a67dedc37fe1af68e005baee0880657

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.08932 · arxiv_version: 1807.08932v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.08932 · pith_short_12: 5CV5WMW5MPSS · pith_short_16: 5CV5WMW5MPSSKG5X · pith_short_8: 5CV5WMW5

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/5CV5WMW5MPSSKG5XBG3YPJVRRS \
  | 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: e8abdb32dd63e5251bb709b787a6b18c9a67dedc37fe1af68e005baee0880657

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "59146b905634221864e00d49e5ef16e2486c40d9ce1a19a7d607cd46be3352ce",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-24T07:30:04Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "18459ff491e25937642ec4ea23b39f591bb8c2566e751c4e8ca2f49ccb57ba0a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.08932",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}