Pith Number

pith:KG6C2IT4

pith:2017:KG6C2IT4G2OIS3Q6YB5RRLOUXO

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Ninth Planet or Wandering Star ?

Gilles Couture

arxiv:1710.09455 v1 · 2017-10-25 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KG6C2IT4G2OIS3Q6YB5RRLOUXO}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:31:59.330688Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

51bc2d227c369c896e1ec07b18add4bbb832f7d24d724e73697f39eafe885340

Aliases

arxiv: 1710.09455 · arxiv_version: 1710.09455v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1710.09455 · pith_short_12: KG6C2IT4G2OI · pith_short_16: KG6C2IT4G2OIS3Q6 · pith_short_8: KG6C2IT4

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/KG6C2IT4G2OIS3Q6YB5RRLOUXO \
  | 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: 51bc2d227c369c896e1ec07b18add4bbb832f7d24d724e73697f39eafe885340

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "44f2fa5d5878ef493d6df9a7fb92e17b538b4e5008b2ccb3da6c27d4742fcf47",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-10-25T20:44:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "efb999dd50e105857096d26efb486ace4e3da85156c7643ef330596b8ac9933b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1710.09455",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}