Pith Number

pith:JEQ3T476

pith:2010:JEQ3T4762GF6AZCCOSKBS2Q6AN

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Aesthetics and Astronomy: Studying the public's perception and understanding of non-traditional imagery from space

Jay Bookbinder, Jeffrey K. Smith, Kelly Keach, Kimberly K. Arcand, Lisa F. Smith, Randall K. Smith

arxiv:1009.0772 v1 · 2010-09-03 · astro-ph.IM · physics.pop-ph

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First computed	2026-05-18T04:41:24.664743Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

4921b9f3fed18be064427494196a1e0345f4b2e894d8053db1940bfb1f95e77c

Aliases

arxiv: 1009.0772 · arxiv_version: 1009.0772v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1009.0772 · pith_short_12: JEQ3T4762GF6 · pith_short_16: JEQ3T4762GF6AZCC · pith_short_8: JEQ3T476

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/JEQ3T4762GF6AZCCOSKBS2Q6AN \
  | 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: 4921b9f3fed18be064427494196a1e0345f4b2e894d8053db1940bfb1f95e77c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "eef36a825ba61b1f8cb5b905414ea50db0d320f558da1b37ccc83193a55dfc89",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.pop-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2010-09-03T21:13:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c5ff78f0bd01155bae49cb44d58f66a3f2c66e0a5fd9ae3a069a352be80630c7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1009.0772",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}