Pith Number

pith:6NQYAMZ4

pith:2015:6NQYAMZ4MYJJCNASDSAE6TS2ME

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Tethered Moon

Anthony Dobrovolskis, Kevin J. Zahnle, Norman H. Sleep, Roxana Lupu

arxiv:1508.01467 v1 · 2015-08-06 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6NQYAMZ4MYJJCNASDSAE6TS2ME}

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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	2026-05-18T01:35:42.522659Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f36180333c66129134121c804f4e5a612731831e0513427a23e7f70d49287352

Aliases

arxiv: 1508.01467 · arxiv_version: 1508.01467v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1508.01467 · pith_short_12: 6NQYAMZ4MYJJ · pith_short_16: 6NQYAMZ4MYJJCNAS · pith_short_8: 6NQYAMZ4

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/6NQYAMZ4MYJJCNASDSAE6TS2ME \
  | 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: f36180333c66129134121c804f4e5a612731831e0513427a23e7f70d49287352

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "166389bd074c913a4c9cc8294cf186204049d5c42b80a0ba0e01c08731b85d9e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2015-08-06T17:44:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e57f9d7808b0c0596ec22861d604ce91bf3f5f096a93dacba1ac00effce803a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1508.01467",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}