Pith Number

pith:L6XXSIFL

pith:2018:L6XXSIFL7ZIPLKD5DMR6WFAY3R

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Primordial N2 provides a cosmochemical explanation for the existence of Sputnik Planitia, Pluto

Christopher R. Glein, J. Hunter Waite Jr

arxiv:1805.09285 v1 · 2018-05-23 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L6XXSIFL7ZIPLKD5DMR6WFAY3R}

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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	2026-05-18T00:14:53.105907Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5faf7920abfe50f5a87d1b23eb1418dc6e6a0536471242c955521703b6ea8122

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.09285 · arxiv_version: 1805.09285v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.09285 · pith_short_12: L6XXSIFL7ZIP · pith_short_16: L6XXSIFL7ZIPLKD5 · pith_short_8: L6XXSIFL

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/L6XXSIFL7ZIPLKD5DMR6WFAY3R \
  | 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: 5faf7920abfe50f5a87d1b23eb1418dc6e6a0536471242c955521703b6ea8122

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9c6b5707414813062e2ea44c72037bbebc1b93893cea154fb7d61c0e53bfbb70",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-23T17:04:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d5f2f216f675ac7742fe1b75a0b010a3e84e9a120b0ead50e376e1347100e08f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.09285",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}