Pith Number

pith:LWU3PFPM

pith:2016:LWU3PFPM4BKCRALFHC7QWRVTYV

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Rotationally Induced Surface Slope-Instabilities and the Activation of CO2 Activity on Comet 103P/Hartley 2

H. Jay Melosh, James Richardson, Jordan K. Steckloff, Kevin Graves, Toshi Hirabayashi

arxiv:1602.08518 v1 · 2016-02-26 · astro-ph.EP

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\pithnumber{LWU3PFPM4BKCRALFHC7QWRVTYV}

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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	2026-05-18T01:19:52.633944Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5da9b795ece05428816538bf0b46b3c5554cb720505568389bfffc41e35bbd17

Aliases

arxiv: 1602.08518 · arxiv_version: 1602.08518v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1602.08518 · pith_short_12: LWU3PFPM4BKC · pith_short_16: LWU3PFPM4BKCRALF · pith_short_8: LWU3PFPM

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/LWU3PFPM4BKCRALFHC7QWRVTYV \
  | 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: 5da9b795ece05428816538bf0b46b3c5554cb720505568389bfffc41e35bbd17

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9968affa40a1bf38f8fdd13688980611d7be071935e687416468673f40e25e3c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2016-02-26T22:07:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "64ae3c146677cba9851e5806cd5d0b9c3cadfcd197ea2c5c050b59a5ea6e3627"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1602.08518",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}