Pith Number

pith:NIHBMAJN

pith:2021:NIHBMAJNBLCDLXR4JHW4KGROKQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Venus Life Finder Mission Study

Bethany Ehlmann, Christopher E. Carr, David Grinspoon, Janusz J. Petkowski, Monika U. Weber, Pete Klupar, Rachana Agrawal, Richard French, Sarag J. Saikia, Sara Seager, Simon P. Worden (for the VLF Collaboration), Weston Buchanan

arxiv:2112.05153 v1 · 2021-12-09 · astro-ph.IM · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NIHBMAJNBLCDLXR4JHW4KGROKQ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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.

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1 paper in Pith

Life on the Edge: Using Planetary Context to Enhance Biosignatures and Avoid False Positives

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T03:39:37.438583Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6a0e16012d0ac435de3c49edc51a2e543c2ebf4e6060e6c97d0744e117e2ca5f

Aliases

arxiv: 2112.05153 · arxiv_version: 2112.05153v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2112.05153 · pith_short_12: NIHBMAJNBLCD · pith_short_16: NIHBMAJNBLCDLXR4 · pith_short_8: NIHBMAJN

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/NIHBMAJNBLCDLXR4JHW4KGROKQ \
  | 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: 6a0e16012d0ac435de3c49edc51a2e543c2ebf4e6060e6c97d0744e117e2ca5f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "01ba8411adf4ee4e1e804fd3f7f23aa7a2c435bde28bc5c8d14f15422eda4a50",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "astro-ph.EP"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2021-12-09T17:11:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "68fade00a88a9e961d16604e82c56bfebf3d5cc53458d18c07f5834cf3af2dec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2112.05153",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}