Pith Number

pith:MAIBHSCH

pith:2014:MAIBHSCHDEUQHM52BTSLFWEQEE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Lingering grains of truth around comet 17P/Holmes

A. K. Mainzer, E. A. Kramer, J. M. Bauer, J. R. Masiero, R. Stevenson, T. Grav

arxiv:1404.5664 v1 · 2014-04-22 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MAIBHSCHDEUQHM52BTSLFWEQEE}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:43:26.192642Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

601013c847192903b3ba0ce4b2d890212470143f4957b88096f5dfd99799908a

Aliases

arxiv: 1404.5664 · arxiv_version: 1404.5664v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1404.5664 · pith_short_12: MAIBHSCHDEUQ · pith_short_16: MAIBHSCHDEUQHM52 · pith_short_8: MAIBHSCH

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/MAIBHSCHDEUQHM52BTSLFWEQEE \
  | 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: 601013c847192903b3ba0ce4b2d890212470143f4957b88096f5dfd99799908a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1947e3ac879f15ea8374b55e1fc9bf2035705d1c7b7155484b1c330d2875b4a8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2014-04-22T22:13:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "04fc2aabfe4acdffb64f9c62082b47341f25bf75bec776dda7b7261efc2278cc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1404.5664",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}