Pith Number

pith:JB6PSDTL

pith:2013:JB6PSDTLPT6WDBHTAH4OAAAZUT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Uncorrelated Volatile Behavior During the 2011 Apparition of Comet C/2009 P1 Garradd

Alan M. Gersch, Bin Yang, David G. Schleicher, Dennis Bodewits, Jessica M. Sunshine, Lori M. Feaga, Michael F. AHearn, Michal Drahus, Silvia Protopapa, Tony L. Farnham

arxiv:1311.4802 v1 · 2013-11-19 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{JB6PSDTLPT6WDBHTAH4OAAAZUT}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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	2026-05-18T01:46:22.992058Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

487cf90e6b7cfd6184f301f8e00019a4f45145111b2007d46d738b1d03fff138

Aliases

arxiv: 1311.4802 · arxiv_version: 1311.4802v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1311.4802 · pith_short_12: JB6PSDTLPT6W · pith_short_16: JB6PSDTLPT6WDBHT · pith_short_8: JB6PSDTL

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/JB6PSDTLPT6WDBHTAH4OAAAZUT \
  | 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: 487cf90e6b7cfd6184f301f8e00019a4f45145111b2007d46d738b1d03fff138

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5daf0dccdf87e2fb8d49e65c16a7d39d9ff8f116d1d8c793cf0cbeb4b8643389",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2013-11-19T16:53:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7bda643b5c8e0e471ce50d2602e3277fee726042565c31423afdfb8c3cde4fe4"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1311.4802",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}