Pith Number

pith:5KCBYIND

pith:2017:5KCBYINDOHX23HGBV6O2WWW3YS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Split Active Asteroid P/2016 J1 (PANSTARRS)

David Jewitt, Man-To Hui, Xinnan Du

arxiv:1702.02766 v1 · 2017-02-09 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5KCBYINDOHX23HGBV6O2WWW3YS}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:48:46.589797Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ea841c21a371efad9cc1af9dab5adbc48a914fe032549127bfe2e8e53c83c7fa

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.02766 · arxiv_version: 1702.02766v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.02766 · pith_short_12: 5KCBYINDOHX2 · pith_short_16: 5KCBYINDOHX23HGB · pith_short_8: 5KCBYIND

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/5KCBYINDOHX23HGBV6O2WWW3YS \
  | 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: ea841c21a371efad9cc1af9dab5adbc48a914fe032549127bfe2e8e53c83c7fa

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9168b89e96c414aea1c174a21c5ea316445fc5977d1def356c2b922dd4fb0de8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-09T09:41:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aeef4a39eb837c900d497f0c183eeb5cc70cf3e1ec5dee2c3cdc944dac133bff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.02766",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}