Pith Number

pith:DSGPVPUQ

pith:2012:DSGPVPUQVSLEQ5JL35MEA2S4UF

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Comet C/2011 W3 (Lovejoy): Orbit Determination, Outbursts, Disintegration of Nucleus, Dust-Tail Morphology, and Relationship to New Cluster of Bright Sungrazers

Paul W. Chodas, Zdenek Sekanina

arxiv:1205.5839 v1 · 2012-05-26 · astro-ph.EP

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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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1 paper in Pith

Sungrazer comets as analogs of star-planet magnetic interactions

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:57:16.998029Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

1c8cfabe90ac9648752bdf58406a5ca162f8903bb937dc7b8b82945fed3714da

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.5839 · arxiv_version: 1205.5839v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.5839 · pith_short_12: DSGPVPUQVSLE · pith_short_16: DSGPVPUQVSLEQ5JL · pith_short_8: DSGPVPUQ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/DSGPVPUQVSLEQ5JL35MEA2S4UF \
  | 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: 1c8cfabe90ac9648752bdf58406a5ca162f8903bb937dc7b8b82945fed3714da

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4bfe966285bdd91f9300bf62c446003a87cc547bc665123738369aa40368b427",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-26T00:24:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7e2dc42dde7e2d579f74c379e8ec555948018ec5f3f51d1b2de52bc45e11b178"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.5839",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}