Pith Number

pith:NYNOD6WN

pith:2016:NYNOD6WNM4B6IQGVNMYVQW2F47

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Fragmentation Kinematics in Comet 332P/Ikeya-Murakami

David Jewitt, Harold Weaver, Jan Kleyna, Jessica Agarwal, Jing Li, Karen Meech, Man-To Hui, Marco Micheli, Masateru Ishiguro, Max Mutchler, Richard Wainscoat, Robert Weryk

arxiv:1609.04452 v1 · 2016-09-14 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{NYNOD6WNM4B6IQGVNMYVQW2F47}

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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	2026-05-18T01:04:17.191051Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6e1ae1facd6703e440d56b31585b45e7eed37efb89acba6dc4b35c12375fa482

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.04452 · arxiv_version: 1609.04452v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.04452 · pith_short_12: NYNOD6WNM4B6 · pith_short_16: NYNOD6WNM4B6IQGV · pith_short_8: NYNOD6WN

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/NYNOD6WNM4B6IQGVNMYVQW2F47 \
  | 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: 6e1ae1facd6703e440d56b31585b45e7eed37efb89acba6dc4b35c12375fa482

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4295753a4ec44a808bb6006225565946e8f281513b051dc00e138d3bcce59c44",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-14T21:40:54Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "505fd553e315763492adfff124545403351fa0e938ba5b4fecc581ad37fe1382"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.04452",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}