Pith Number

pith:BBPBKQKA

pith:2017:BBPBKQKASNOTZGEX5NLRWJ5VIA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Statistical analysis of the ambiguities in the asteroid period determinations

A. Marciniak, G. Dudzi\'nski, M. Butkiewicz-B\k{a}k, P. Bartczak, T. Kwiatkowski

arxiv:1707.04427 v1 · 2017-07-14 · astro-ph.EP

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-05-18T00:40:18.258226Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

085e154140935d3c9897eb571b27b54007694c92c9f0c6cd452cab2019331b88

Aliases

arxiv: 1707.04427 · arxiv_version: 1707.04427v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1707.04427 · pith_short_12: BBPBKQKASNOT · pith_short_16: BBPBKQKASNOTZGEX · pith_short_8: BBPBKQKA

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/BBPBKQKASNOTZGEX5NLRWJ5VIA \
  | 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: 085e154140935d3c9897eb571b27b54007694c92c9f0c6cd452cab2019331b88

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ef6a460c497c9917bd9930d538edc5fff40fd20acba8a21b8c268f981e5868eb",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-07-14T09:17:59Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9dc73b56d453e8e38c15301176c007d3939bd842a234ec97a924e79b35e7203d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1707.04427",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}