Pith Number

pith:5LQRV6C3

pith:2011:5LQRV6C3X23QMSVO36RPI46WRG

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Sunlight refraction in the mesosphere of Venus during the transit on June 8th, 2004

A. Rondi, B. Sicardy, J. Arnaud, J.M. Pasachoff, L. Comolli, P. Suetterlin, P. Tanga, S. Rondi, Th. Widemann

arxiv:1112.3136 v1 · 2011-12-14 · astro-ph.EP · physics.geo-ph · physics.hist-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5LQRV6C3X23QMSVO36RPI46WRG}

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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	2026-05-18T01:59:10.316042Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eae11af85bbeb7064aaedfa2f473d689a506128c3fdb76683ef8552d28b1486e

Aliases

arxiv: 1112.3136 · arxiv_version: 1112.3136v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1112.3136 · pith_short_12: 5LQRV6C3X23Q · pith_short_16: 5LQRV6C3X23QMSVO · pith_short_8: 5LQRV6C3

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/5LQRV6C3X23QMSVO36RPI46WRG \
  | 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: eae11af85bbeb7064aaedfa2f473d689a506128c3fdb76683ef8552d28b1486e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1394cca691c7b8a6d7a8b6881f70b1bc17ad21762a455e89574977ce9278ed22",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.geo-ph",
      "physics.hist-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2011-12-14T07:33:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3b530f0fcddc478f643e33f9b40c5a7ae1783f0c2c4ad76a80b69e04015a616a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1112.3136",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}