Pith Number

pith:6COW6A36

pith:2015:6COW6A36TA7AHOAODBSU455Z25

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Gone in a Blaze of Glory: the Demise of Comet C/2015 D1 (SOHO)

David Clark, Karl Battams, Man-To Hui, Matthew Knight, Quan-Zhi Ye

arxiv:1509.07606 v1 · 2015-09-25 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6COW6A36TA7AHOAODBSU455Z25}

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:27:56.996626Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f09d6f037e983e03b80e18654e77b9d74c98806e3fb5f758575fc12ff41d57f7

Aliases

arxiv: 1509.07606 · arxiv_version: 1509.07606v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1509.07606 · pith_short_12: 6COW6A36TA7A · pith_short_16: 6COW6A36TA7AHOAO · pith_short_8: 6COW6A36

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/6COW6A36TA7AHOAODBSU455Z25 \
  | 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: f09d6f037e983e03b80e18654e77b9d74c98806e3fb5f758575fc12ff41d57f7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e536dae7d1a05255a9497bef872057f469b55883a30889d709dc6c488d9dd7e9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2015-09-25T07:32:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ed0907483095fe072d8f8a5aa5d2a6fe093d3adc4647ed03e10eb2cf5b1387e1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1509.07606",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}