Pith Number

pith:B6O3XZHC

pith:2015:B6O3XZHCDLWSVCFAOHI7F5JBCT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Growing the terrestrial planets from the gradual accumulation of sub-meter sized objects

Harold F. Levison, Katherine A. Kretke, Kevin Walsh, William Bottke

arxiv:1510.02095 v1 · 2015-10-07 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{B6O3XZHCDLWSVCFAOHI7F5JBCT}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:22:35.573808Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0f9dbbe4e21aed2a88a071d1f2f52114d7b9f9f4819492a0ee505b1583217f18

Aliases

arxiv: 1510.02095 · arxiv_version: 1510.02095v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1510.02095 · pith_short_12: B6O3XZHCDLWS · pith_short_16: B6O3XZHCDLWSVCFA · pith_short_8: B6O3XZHC

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/B6O3XZHCDLWSVCFAOHI7F5JBCT \
  | 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: 0f9dbbe4e21aed2a88a071d1f2f52114d7b9f9f4819492a0ee505b1583217f18

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "40a53ea7b6cd29b7731e32bebb04fd6af16a30027463bf0ad9d4ecce2f2b4f09",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2015-10-07T20:07:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "45221416985baaea0b11def497f12680da864560024fd84be837cf2e9684b940"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1510.02095",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}