Pith Number

pith:GEFWGVQ2

pith:2025:GEFWGVQ22BMGA525WVDZU2DRSP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

New Insights into the Nature and Orbital Motion of Aristotle's Comet in 372 BC

Zdenek Sekanina

arxiv:2507.15228 v1 · 2025-07-21 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GEFWGVQ22BMGA525WVDZU2DRSP}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-05T11:40:20.575916Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

310b63561ad05860775db5479a687193d5df10a0a5732b76021f7c0ed89fef99

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.15228 · arxiv_version: 2507.15228v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.15228 · pith_short_12: GEFWGVQ22BMG · pith_short_16: GEFWGVQ22BMGA525 · pith_short_8: GEFWGVQ2

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/GEFWGVQ22BMGA525WVDZU2DRSP \
  | 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: 310b63561ad05860775db5479a687193d5df10a0a5732b76021f7c0ed89fef99

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5d65a0e24b72112c64c1fec5d3e0416c2de5d5edf115c065e18c5857e46b767b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-21T04:02:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "af9c1ac84f6fab9f5305368dd5fbd93ec30fe34ae2e07293644edee372e8dffc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.15228",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}