Pith Number

pith:6LTH4IVZ

pith:2016:6LTH4IVZ443ZJ5LSIFHYZCXDS2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Comet 252P/LINEAR: born (almost) dead?

Paul A. Wiegert, Peter G. Brown, Quan-Zhi Ye

arxiv:1601.07837 v1 · 2016-01-28 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6LTH4IVZ443ZJ5LSIFHYZCXDS2}

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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	2026-05-18T01:19:24.593499Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f2e67e22b9e73794f572414f8c8ae396817265d5b3ffbfaf52492c8c67ff1a53

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.07837 · arxiv_version: 1601.07837v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.07837 · pith_short_12: 6LTH4IVZ443Z · pith_short_16: 6LTH4IVZ443ZJ5LS · pith_short_8: 6LTH4IVZ

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/6LTH4IVZ443ZJ5LSIFHYZCXDS2 \
  | 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: f2e67e22b9e73794f572414f8c8ae396817265d5b3ffbfaf52492c8c67ff1a53

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0cbd5faa324bfdda54b9ec27e037fdd13a4660ad939b07d44316e948412d0efe",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-28T17:14:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a8b7cd1828060b7cec65e5ffeaf94da5f1ccd19617f7776bd0f553aca81dfa3a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.07837",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}