Pith Number

pith:BRSACJYD

pith:2011:BRSACJYD5RMEH7Z4KIF6HKGUDY

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Hubble Space Telescope Observations of Main Belt Comet (596) Scheila

David Jewitt, Harold Weaver, Jessica Agarwal, Max Mutchler, Stephen Larson

arxiv:1103.5456 v1 · 2011-03-28 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BRSACJYD5RMEH7Z4KIF6HKGUDY}

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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	2026-05-18T02:02:43.996248Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0c64012703ec5843ff3c520be3a8d41e1fc2def2b3ae912bb31f9d986cbd3771

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.5456 · arxiv_version: 1103.5456v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.5456 · pith_short_12: BRSACJYD5RME · pith_short_16: BRSACJYD5RMEH7Z4 · pith_short_8: BRSACJYD

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/BRSACJYD5RMEH7Z4KIF6HKGUDY \
  | 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: 0c64012703ec5843ff3c520be3a8d41e1fc2def2b3ae912bb31f9d986cbd3771

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "567d34ce9be9aa3b7a326cc4108f49cbc4fb1d1ef518be819c4f998848f6f6ff",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-28T19:46:31Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2ead3e1bd266106de0940848a7af2787399e7717a30feb402bf481e91aab80ec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.5456",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}