Pith Number

pith:NDXKKUYP

pith:2012:NDXKKUYPWNIFTOL3QD2XYDYTTZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Seasonal melting and the formation of sedimentary rocks on Mars, with predictions for the Gale Crater mound

Edwin S. Kite, Itay Halevy, Melinda A. Kahre, Michael J. Wolff, Michael Manga

arxiv:1205.6226 v1 · 2012-05-28 · astro-ph.EP · physics.geo-ph

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\pithnumber{NDXKKUYPWNIFTOL3QD2XYDYTTZ}

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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	2026-05-18T01:57:16.372931Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

68eea5530fb35059b97b80f57c0f139e485b20379505c9d23dd56b88b9eb1f9c

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.6226 · arxiv_version: 1205.6226v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.6226 · pith_short_12: NDXKKUYPWNIF · pith_short_16: NDXKKUYPWNIFTOL3 · pith_short_8: NDXKKUYP

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/NDXKKUYPWNIFTOL3QD2XYDYTTZ \
  | 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: 68eea5530fb35059b97b80f57c0f139e485b20379505c9d23dd56b88b9eb1f9c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1ad52461d6fead5cdf46ac0a89e4ef5e378085a9701b18e07045be039f7cb776",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.geo-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-28T22:28:56Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0f5a083b2ba65d0a01697a5662bcad27e9b8ee1c87c8fbe7ffbb3ff234e2f996"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.6226",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}