Pith Number

pith:AP2D4CSW

pith:2020:AP2D4CSWPMZ4SM3GR7GWLWP6MM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Ethical Exploration and the Role of Planetary Protection in Disrupting Colonial Practices

Aparna Venkatesan, Dana Burton, Denise Buckner, Eleni Ravanis, Frank Tavares, Jordan McKaig, Lucianne Walkowicz, Mary Beth Wilhelm, Monica Vidaurri, Natalie Trevino, Parvathy Prem, Steven D. Vance

arxiv:2010.08344 v2 · 2020-10-15 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AP2D4CSWPMZ4SM3GR7GWLWP6MM}

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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	2026-07-05T01:47:15.591167Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

03f43e0a567b33c933668fcd65d9fe6315276c35387d164aecd2fa4b4f6bad78

Aliases

arxiv: 2010.08344 · arxiv_version: 2010.08344v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2010.08344 · pith_short_12: AP2D4CSWPMZ4 · pith_short_16: AP2D4CSWPMZ4SM3G · pith_short_8: AP2D4CSW

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/AP2D4CSWPMZ4SM3GR7GWLWP6MM \
  | 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: 03f43e0a567b33c933668fcd65d9fe6315276c35387d164aecd2fa4b4f6bad78

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "235c6ae9f07bf221306a684db606c0460c84365217ddd3013eea6057d59e085f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.EP"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2020-10-15T17:14:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b681700d62a91748f252479a17402338823c966d81af89c932fe80f881cdfade"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2010.08344",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}