Pith Number

pith:OVUSRPS6

pith:2002:OVUSRPS6PLM77ZKWTVHKONRVUW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Formation of Kuiper Belt Binaries

Peter Goldreich, Re'em Sari (CALTECH), Yoram Lithwick

arxiv:astro-ph/0208490 v1 · 2002-08-28 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{OVUSRPS6PLM77ZKWTVHKONRVUW}

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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	2026-07-04T16:30:41.707308Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

756928be5e7ad9ffe5569d4ea73635a5b2cedc54553b755b99d37c0a5bf2ae7d

Aliases

arxiv: astro-ph/0208490 · arxiv_version: astro-ph/0208490v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0208490 · pith_short_12: OVUSRPS6PLM7 · pith_short_16: OVUSRPS6PLM77ZKW · pith_short_8: OVUSRPS6

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/OVUSRPS6PLM77ZKWTVHKONRVUW \
  | 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: 756928be5e7ad9ffe5569d4ea73635a5b2cedc54553b755b99d37c0a5bf2ae7d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8ecf4c2ab9ee0f78f684fe0525ca461eb41cfb648a752d3697eda1744863160f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2002-08-28T07:09:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9a691479d007b144e7aabecb1890ae53362f5c45c839bfb66dc5c2b549c66468"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "astro-ph/0208490",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}