Pith Number

pith:LWDOK72U

pith:2018:LWDOK72UNNMJCMZIK4ZWMREHRE

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Physics of Meteor Generated Shock Waves in the Earth's Atmosphere - A Review

Elizabeth A. Silber, Maria Gritsevich, Mark Boslough, Rodney W. Whitaker, Wayne K. Hocking

arxiv:1805.07842 v1 · 2018-05-20 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{LWDOK72UNNMJCMZIK4ZWMREHRE}

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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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:15:32.387396Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5d86e57f546b589133285733664487893cde894962c9f76e49d5e7468a3aecac

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.07842 · arxiv_version: 1805.07842v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.07842 · pith_short_12: LWDOK72UNNMJ · pith_short_16: LWDOK72UNNMJCMZI · pith_short_8: LWDOK72U

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LWDOK72UNNMJCMZIK4ZWMREHRE \
  | 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: 5d86e57f546b589133285733664487893cde894962c9f76e49d5e7468a3aecac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6980bdb92ec0b6b1287d5969dfeda9a98e40c81bd0e234628668da7055851834",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-20T23:41:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "23a988b3fa235b5f2e5ad55c02c6f02565095ff31ab47c399c9f672cfb712ced"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.07842",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}