Pith Number

pith:EQ3K5Y4C

pith:2012:EQ3K5Y4CFNFQTTL4N2EPQVDFMC

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A Possible Divot in the Size Distribution of the Kuiper Belt's Scattering Objects

B. Gladman, C. Shankman, J. J. Kavelaars, J.-M. Petit, N. Kaib

arxiv:1210.4827 v2 · 2012-10-17 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EQ3K5Y4CFNFQTTL4N2EPQVDFMC}

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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	2026-05-18T03:34:59.070579Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2436aee3822b4b09cd7c6e88f8546560b5a957235f50b1bdbadbec5319e08772

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.4827 · arxiv_version: 1210.4827v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.4827 · pith_short_12: EQ3K5Y4CFNFQ · pith_short_16: EQ3K5Y4CFNFQTTL4 · pith_short_8: EQ3K5Y4C

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/EQ3K5Y4CFNFQTTL4N2EPQVDFMC \
  | 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: 2436aee3822b4b09cd7c6e88f8546560b5a957235f50b1bdbadbec5319e08772

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "222114c5050ca5c08d2a494ef55ef911ed7ac24406f01451a881ee9533936893",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-17T19:19:10Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ed7a6bc8d1b93ac774e465fb363062048f40eb520fd9bd49c77fdd2be2c772b0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.4827",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}