Pith Number

pith:EDW4GTQV

pith:2012:EDW4GTQVDFQEPGJMESPQCINKS5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discovery of Main-Belt Comet P/2006 VW139 by Pan-STARRS1

Alan Fitzsimmons, Andrea Milani, Bhuwan C. Bhatt, Bin Yang, Bojan Novakovic, Carey M. Lisse, Chadwick A. Trujillo, Daisuke Kinoshita, David J. Tholen, Devendra K. Sahu, Eugene A. Magnier, Heather M. Kaluna, Henry H. Hsieh, Jacqueline V. Keane, James D. Armstrong, Jan Kleyna, John L. Tonry, Karen J. Meech, K. C. Chambers, Klaus W. Hodapp, Larry Denneau, Laurie Urban, Marco Micheli, Michael S. Kelley, Mikael Granvik, Nader Haghighipour, Nick Kaiser, Paul A. Price, Pedro Lacerda, Peter Veres, Richard J. Wainscoat, Robert Jedicke, Samuel R. Duddy, Shinsuke Abe, Stephen C. Lowry, Tim Lister, Timm Riesen, Tommy Grav, Wen-Ping Chen, Wing-Huen Ip, Yanga R. Fernandez, Yu-Chi Cheng

arxiv:1202.2126 v1 · 2012-02-09 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EDW4GTQVDFQEPGJMESPQCINKS5}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:31.531554Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

20edc34e15196047992c249f0121aa9761090c835436c4f7578eafe3774993ff

Aliases

arxiv: 1202.2126 · arxiv_version: 1202.2126v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1202.2126 · pith_short_12: EDW4GTQVDFQE · pith_short_16: EDW4GTQVDFQEPGJM · pith_short_8: EDW4GTQV

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/EDW4GTQVDFQEPGJMESPQCINKS5 \
  | 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: 20edc34e15196047992c249f0121aa9761090c835436c4f7578eafe3774993ff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b1f5f187eebdbbd145559d13d97edc37b3b7e74ac42515735a3a7d32a88c549b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2012-02-09T21:00:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "97ef00ab290be7c72afe493ccf42f9ae061022f147cfe8c308eaa5b156d751e3"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1202.2126",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}