Pith Number

pith:B2ATJQWR

pith:2016:B2ATJQWRADFJOLCVPO5VAPY5TY

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Evidence for a Distant Giant Planet in the Solar System

Konstantin Batygin, Michael E. Brown

arxiv:1601.05438 v1 · 2016-01-20 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B2ATJQWRADFJOLCVPO5VAPY5TY}

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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	2026-05-18T01:22:13.813844Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e8134c2d100ca972c557bbb503f1d9e356c64ca8d74a7e992f1d0faf4367366

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.05438 · arxiv_version: 1601.05438v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.05438 · pith_short_12: B2ATJQWRADFJ · pith_short_16: B2ATJQWRADFJOLCV · pith_short_8: B2ATJQWR

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/B2ATJQWRADFJOLCVPO5VAPY5TY \
  | 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: 0e8134c2d100ca972c557bbb503f1d9e356c64ca8d74a7e992f1d0faf4367366

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2bd414ed1d2d3d0e408da34925a67f52e1d8deb473c3e078d2e826b3687be6da",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-20T21:19:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c58520c42801df084c17fb88c727b485719f84d506c4b26d663c195722d2ac02"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.05438",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}