Pith Number

pith:KHOD6ZMQ

pith:2011:KHOD6ZMQNXSYMS7CEHLAL3VQSC

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Searching for comets on the World Wide Web: The orbit of 17P/Holmes from the behavior of photographers

David W. Hogg (NYU), Dustin Lang (Princeton)

arxiv:1103.6038 v2 · 2011-03-30 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{KHOD6ZMQNXSYMS7CEHLAL3VQSC}

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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	2026-05-18T02:22:11.468170Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

51dc3f65906de5864be221d605eeb0908e30649838fc50b1710381ef1637f4b5

Aliases

arxiv: 1103.6038 · arxiv_version: 1103.6038v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1103.6038 · pith_short_12: KHOD6ZMQNXSY · pith_short_16: KHOD6ZMQNXSYMS7C · pith_short_8: KHOD6ZMQ

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/KHOD6ZMQNXSYMS7CEHLAL3VQSC \
  | 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: 51dc3f65906de5864be221d605eeb0908e30649838fc50b1710381ef1637f4b5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e1811e3091b5a0038242e475ac4c8c3aa6744e4ac461dac87cfc6844f6416c36",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2011-03-30T20:00:48Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1d80990742c296771eaacddf29c7f18429fd3b414a67918074ce0859d2f976d1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1103.6038",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}