Pith Number

pith:AFATTKQT

pith:2017:AFATTKQT2PSGSZHHMZV4EGHGYZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

1I/`Oumuamua as a Tidal Disruption Fragment From a Binary Star System

Matija \'Cuk

arxiv:1712.01823 v2 · 2017-12-05 · astro-ph.EP

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\pithnumber{AFATTKQT2PSGSZHHMZV4EGHGYZ}

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1 paper in Pith

The Natural History of 'Oumuamua

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:26:23.399042Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

014139aa13d3e46964e7666bc218e6c64258d0300b5029c3f3aca2021eda4a8a

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.01823 · arxiv_version: 1712.01823v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.01823 · pith_short_12: AFATTKQT2PSG · pith_short_16: AFATTKQT2PSGSZHH · pith_short_8: AFATTKQT

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/AFATTKQT2PSGSZHHMZV4EGHGYZ \
  | 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: 014139aa13d3e46964e7666bc218e6c64258d0300b5029c3f3aca2021eda4a8a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6b4096f777459182a16058a8890c87734a358e2eb5774c952b606049fb10d130",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-05T18:56:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1ef417d068e12590e7099cfc5af27a18b8611ec26775edcae07ea124f07a9b73"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.01823",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}