Pith Number

pith:IUXXLFWJ

pith:2026:IUXXLFWJY7VQHIFSYXR27ODNMB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Investigation of Split Comet 240P/NEAT

David Jewitt, Jane Luu, Yoonyoung Kim

arxiv:2606.21609 v1 · 2026-06-19 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{IUXXLFWJY7VQHIFSYXR27ODNMB}

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4 Citations 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	2026-06-23T01:13:16.191904Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

452f7596c9c7eb03a0b2c5e3afb86d607c5b10d75e113e290207fe7b53c088ce

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.21609 · arxiv_version: 2606.21609v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.21609 · pith_short_12: IUXXLFWJY7VQ · pith_short_16: IUXXLFWJY7VQHIFS · pith_short_8: IUXXLFWJ

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/IUXXLFWJY7VQHIFSYXR27ODNMB \
  | 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: 452f7596c9c7eb03a0b2c5e3afb86d607c5b10d75e113e290207fe7b53c088ce

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "981dbfc48d7c73b269525c4aaaddcb7b380af9370fc370c5dac927c569a38d87",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-19T17:13:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ba3766b7e6daec3feb17a4464b707648512a10dbdb33ea52a6310a93c55f9117"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.21609",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}