Pith Number

pith:62OTHX4Z

pith:2011:62OTHX4ZG2BBGJ6FSUQDUCC6AK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Removing Orbital Debris with Lasers

Alexander Rubenchik, Bogdan Marcovici, Brian Bradford, Claude R. Phipps, David N. Strafford, Duane A. Liedahl, E. Victor George, James P. Reilly, Kevin L. Baker, Lyn D. Pleasance, Michael T. Valley, Scot S. Olivier, Stephen B. Libby

arxiv:1110.3835 v1 · 2011-10-17 · physics.space-ph · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{62OTHX4ZG2BBGJ6FSUQDUCC6AK}

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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	2026-05-18T02:00:09.697933Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f69d33df9936821327c595203a085e0297d4935374c955252612ce3c25b09e08

Aliases

arxiv: 1110.3835 · arxiv_version: 1110.3835v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1110.3835 · pith_short_12: 62OTHX4ZG2BB · pith_short_16: 62OTHX4ZG2BBGJ6F · pith_short_8: 62OTHX4Z

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/62OTHX4ZG2BBGJ6FSUQDUCC6AK \
  | 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: f69d33df9936821327c595203a085e0297d4935374c955252612ce3c25b09e08

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b8ddfb21c3dbc12bdfcb8747dfa8e40859c1c0c3fd05a02c8807cc0112d25571",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.IM"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.space-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2011-10-17T21:55:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "77164fd02e33c2f5abcd3d726aa8c66af2b4bb2115cf1e13ceb1a7ea975341e4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1110.3835",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}