Pith Number

pith:7S76TIQH

pith:2014:7S76TIQHA7ERKBTNDBU4TC6UD7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Disintegration of Comet C/2012 S1 (ISON) Shortly Before Perihelion: Evidence from Independent Data Sets

Rainer Kracht, Zdenek Sekanina

arxiv:1404.5968 v6 · 2014-04-23 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{7S76TIQHA7ERKBTNDBU4TC6UD7}

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:27.329995Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

fcbfe9a20707c915066d1869c98bd41fdfcc315fb4dc8d4055077a9153a46cb4

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.5968 · arxiv_version: 1404.5968v6 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.5968 · pith_short_12: 7S76TIQHA7ER · pith_short_16: 7S76TIQHA7ERKBTN · pith_short_8: 7S76TIQH

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/7S76TIQHA7ERKBTNDBU4TC6UD7 \
  | 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: fcbfe9a20707c915066d1869c98bd41fdfcc315fb4dc8d4055077a9153a46cb4

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "471332b6ea6830addb09f6daf60b4eece1fa30e03bc9bc682ac8accde609b519",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-23T20:17:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "af5edf5d486872bd19a7e4aec2e3823ef109d26d957714e52a6bbca6738f71ee"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.5968",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 6
  }
}