Pith Number

pith:5V2ITIQA

pith:2006:5V2ITIQAOGNJLG2UC5FURIDDFC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A History and Informal Assessment of the Slacker Astronomy Podcast

A. Price, G. Brissenden, P. Gay, T. Searle

arxiv:astro-ph/0606326 v1 · 2006-06-13 · astro-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5V2ITIQAOGNJLG2UC5FURIDDFC}

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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	2026-05-18T01:40:30.175762Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed7489a200719a959b54174b48a06328b2594a140ace5f288d6f3dbcfc0c64bb

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0606326 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0606326v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0606326 · pith_short_12: 5V2ITIQAOGNJ · pith_short_16: 5V2ITIQAOGNJLG2U · pith_short_8: 5V2ITIQA

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/5V2ITIQAOGNJLG2UC5FURIDDFC \
  | 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: ed7489a200719a959b54174b48a06328b2594a140ace5f288d6f3dbcfc0c64bb

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0d5a881cdd1b67ed0b197f17a72ddebe04be22a1d64253c552076e5fa08d2817",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2006-06-13T19:46:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "552c00a72cb8db8667d4223146f0a7dd836c51a73fcf1416d2d40481c431f3d7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0606326",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}