Pith Number

pith:NVCIDQIY

pith:2016:NVCIDQIYM65ASDLZ52U3ZHO33L

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Composition of Solar System Small Bodies

Pierre Beck, Pierre Vernazza

arxiv:1611.08731 v1 · 2016-11-26 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NVCIDQIYM65ASDLZ52U3ZHO33L}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:56:36.932817Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6d4481c11867ba090d79eea9bc9ddbdadecb39cffdbbc8242147fac21ee296b0

Aliases

arxiv: 1611.08731 · arxiv_version: 1611.08731v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1611.08731 · pith_short_12: NVCIDQIYM65A · pith_short_16: NVCIDQIYM65ASDLZ · pith_short_8: NVCIDQIY

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/NVCIDQIYM65ASDLZ52U3ZHO33L \
  | 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: 6d4481c11867ba090d79eea9bc9ddbdadecb39cffdbbc8242147fac21ee296b0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a1c49e0ff3bfcffcffea32044719408a0a0d08148076c5c467923ff4395e0c9e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-26T18:30:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4f312948100fa6f34f463211ce12f0acc06b9c2adc2594a6b93ad3586d90dda0"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1611.08731",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}