Pith Number

pith:MSNR5JCG

pith:2015:MSNR5JCGUL3SOFDHSUX3EDU4AA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Searching for Charon's Atmosphere: Predictions for the New Horizons Approach

Joshua A. Kammer, S. Alan Stern

arxiv:1506.04154 v2 · 2015-06-12 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MSNR5JCGUL3SOFDHSUX3EDU4AA}

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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	2026-05-18T01:13:24.206573Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

649b1ea446a2f7271467952fb20e9c003675c9dfe8bb934f3bf9a80014264518

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.04154 · arxiv_version: 1506.04154v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.04154 · pith_short_12: MSNR5JCGUL3S · pith_short_16: MSNR5JCGUL3SOFDH · pith_short_8: MSNR5JCG

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/MSNR5JCGUL3SOFDHSUX3EDU4AA \
  | 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: 649b1ea446a2f7271467952fb20e9c003675c9dfe8bb934f3bf9a80014264518

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0f947045538fb1c6c0a9b5c399cdb39a390bc5392db25725e47602524818de8f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-12T20:01:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e25b3cf5cc520cf41fbabea80c879ccee18eb29cb76313f1039d2e40dc8fcc2d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.04154",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}