Pith Number

pith:MFQ5VKUS

pith:2016:MFQ5VKUSTSTMKWE7PVT246VTNE

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Rings beyond the giant planets

Alice C. Quillen, Bruno Sicardy, Kevin Walsh, Mark R. Showalter, Maryame El Moutamid, Paul M. Schenk

arxiv:1612.03321 v2 · 2016-12-10 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MFQ5VKUSTSTMKWE7PVT246VTNE}

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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	2026-05-18T00:46:38.562216Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6161daaa929ca6c5589f7d67ae7ab3691de7475bc5bc999884e78889413d676d

Aliases

arxiv: 1612.03321 · arxiv_version: 1612.03321v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1612.03321 · pith_short_12: MFQ5VKUSTSTM · pith_short_16: MFQ5VKUSTSTMKWE7 · pith_short_8: MFQ5VKUS

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/MFQ5VKUSTSTMKWE7PVT246VTNE \
  | 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: 6161daaa929ca6c5589f7d67ae7ab3691de7475bc5bc999884e78889413d676d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5983267caedc12ab4e44a9535ee1b5835c74ae98990a5810aafd598353e222e1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2016-12-10T16:58:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b61ff544d6a9ac15b29c5ca827b41c886888fe614c9ba1997ad68f7685069e2d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1612.03321",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}