Pith Number

pith:6QVL4CKD

pith:2017:6QVL4CKDAG3UV5KPBPE353L666

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The splitting of double-component active asteroid P/2016 J1 (PANSTARRS)

Antonio Cabrera-Lavers, Bojan Novakovic, Brett Gladman, Bryce Bolin, Christopher Waters, Davide Farnocchia, Eugene Magnier, Eva Schunova-Lilly, Fernando Moreno, Francisco Pozuelos, Heather Flewelling, Javier Licandro, Kenneth Chambers, Larry Denneau, Marco Micheli, Mark Huber, Michele Bannister, Peter Veres, Richard Wainscoat, Robert Jedicke, Robert Weryk, Serge Chastel, Stephen Gwyn

arxiv:1702.03665 v1 · 2017-02-13 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6QVL4CKDAG3UV5KPBPE353L666}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:49:09.137857Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f42abe094301b74af54f0bc9beed7ef786b010a182df8d31cfe78c5c6a975e22

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.03665 · arxiv_version: 1702.03665v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.03665 · pith_short_12: 6QVL4CKDAG3U · pith_short_16: 6QVL4CKDAG3UV5KP · pith_short_8: 6QVL4CKD

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/6QVL4CKDAG3UV5KPBPE353L666 \
  | 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: f42abe094301b74af54f0bc9beed7ef786b010a182df8d31cfe78c5c6a975e22

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c30bdfffdabd71d1c595e0c4469de348405489f1f3267dfeb983747ddd497181",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-13T08:18:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0e2689fd85f043e508aedeb63d457a6748ba8b63c392fc93913a02099f2979f5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.03665",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}