Pith Number

pith:J55C3MWT

pith:2017:J55C3MWTVZDF4HD376YHI2CKAI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Unusual Apparition of Comet 252P/2000 G1 (LINEAR) and Comparison with Comet P/2016 BA14 (PanSTARRS)

Davide Farnocchia, David J. Tholen, Jian-Yang Li, Marco Micheli, Max J. Mutchler, Michael S.P. Kelley, Nalin H. Samarasinha, Tim Lister, Xiaoping Lu, Yanqiong Ren

arxiv:1708.05190 v1 · 2017-08-17 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{J55C3MWTVZDF4HD376YHI2CKAI}

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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	2026-05-18T00:35:30.551753Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4f7a2db2d3ae465e1c7bffb074684a0239c9c5068cc3c23da4dc2ba0a92d8478

Aliases

arxiv: 1708.05190 · arxiv_version: 1708.05190v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1708.05190 · pith_short_12: J55C3MWTVZDF · pith_short_16: J55C3MWTVZDF4HD3 · pith_short_8: J55C3MWT

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/J55C3MWTVZDF4HD376YHI2CKAI \
  | 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: 4f7a2db2d3ae465e1c7bffb074684a0239c9c5068cc3c23da4dc2ba0a92d8478

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b4afddd1f861530d1943db089374cb46e85dc4410e491eef3b498e2439741a09",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-08-17T10:01:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b9177c019de8aba2b77de13e9374d8bd30340eb889666af58b6cdc726698a97c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1708.05190",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}