Pith Number

pith:5VDB6R7T

pith:2014:5VDB6R7TFBGTA3LZLATCRTYVBO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Absolute Magnitude Distribution of Kuiper Belt Objects

Alessandro Morbidelli, Alex Parker, Konstantin Batygin, Michael E. Brown, Wesley C. Fraser

arxiv:1401.2157 v1 · 2014-01-09 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5VDB6R7TFBGTA3LZLATCRTYVBO}

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:45:26.977002Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ed461f47f3284d306d79582628cf150bb5ce7a8254e8bf6d4d8631882bceb84f

Aliases

arxiv: 1401.2157 · arxiv_version: 1401.2157v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1401.2157 · pith_short_12: 5VDB6R7TFBGT · pith_short_16: 5VDB6R7TFBGTA3LZ · pith_short_8: 5VDB6R7T

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/5VDB6R7TFBGTA3LZLATCRTYVBO \
  | 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: ed461f47f3284d306d79582628cf150bb5ce7a8254e8bf6d4d8631882bceb84f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "757d65d3829ab4a87ac1d186e28200a4a42988b3cc309a35cc29c33a919f33f7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2014-01-09T21:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "94ce8d0e06cb44af20ab81097de6ddf465298863b90fc24930ca004bcfc8323b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1401.2157",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}