Pith Number

pith:6KYAMWBW

pith:2021:6KYAMWBW5YMLQ736HTTRWNKBLS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Recurrent Activity from Active Asteroid (248370) 2005 QN173: A Main-Belt Comet

Chadwick A. Trujillo, Colin Orion Chandler, Henry H. Hsieh

arxiv:2111.06405 v1 · 2021-11-11 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6KYAMWBW5YMLQ736HTTRWNKBLS}

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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	2026-07-05T03:34:38.445584Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f2b0065836ee18b87f7e3ce71b35415cb1f59e6454206facf043c2c4016505f6

Aliases

arxiv: 2111.06405 · arxiv_version: 2111.06405v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2111.06405 · pith_short_12: 6KYAMWBW5YML · pith_short_16: 6KYAMWBW5YMLQ736 · pith_short_8: 6KYAMWBW

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/6KYAMWBW5YMLQ736HTTRWNKBLS \
  | 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: f2b0065836ee18b87f7e3ce71b35415cb1f59e6454206facf043c2c4016505f6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "682f583c49dd08325ec280c8524b84cec40ba65d8da6125b61bc00a8e5860a79",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2021-11-11T19:00:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1c93c8e73d7f5d07e68f66d6335f2f6c20b5dcfdf92192bedf5a870a3e6e4719"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2111.06405",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}