Pith Number

pith:P3MOT5KB

pith:2012:P3MOT5KBAYDA7OGZF57FE53ZW7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Interstellar Dust Close to the Sun

Jonathan D. Slavin, Priscilla C. Frisch

arxiv:1205.4017 v1 · 2012-05-17 · astro-ph.GA

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{P3MOT5KBAYDA7OGZF57FE53ZW7}

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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	2026-05-18T01:57:25.983944Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7ed8e9f54106060fb8d92f7e527779b7d0d390c6229035e091ae2e4398580842

Aliases

arxiv: 1205.4017 · arxiv_version: 1205.4017v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1205.4017 · pith_short_12: P3MOT5KBAYDA · pith_short_16: P3MOT5KBAYDA7OGZ · pith_short_8: P3MOT5KB

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/P3MOT5KBAYDA7OGZF57FE53ZW7 \
  | 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: 7ed8e9f54106060fb8d92f7e527779b7d0d390c6229035e091ae2e4398580842

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "df0614bdf3ebb970daf3455cf81314294380a9e77f227c2bfd1946fda8428df2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.GA",
    "submitted_at": "2012-05-17T19:50:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6be4d39e8f9387ef70bc168f758ad8078ce792e5a0d12b5b3fdf27d5a08d9578"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1205.4017",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}