Pith Number

pith:PSG234JC

pith:2016:PSG234JCL5US6SOUMCDJKP6AK4

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Geology of Pluto and Charon Through the Eyes of New Horizons

Alan D. Howard, Alex Harrison Parker, Amanda M. Zangari, Andrew F. Cheng, Andrew L. Chaikin, Anne J. Verbiscer, Bonnie J. Buratti, Carey M. Lisse, Carly J. A. Howett, Carrie L. Chavez, Cathy B. Olkin, Constantine C. C. Tsang, Dale P. Cruikshank, Dennis C. Reuter, Don E. Wilhelms, Francis Nimmo, Harold A. Weaver, Harold J. Reitsema, Henry B. Throop, Ivan R. Linscott, Jeffrey M. Moore, John R. Spencer, Kelsi N. Singer, Kimberly Ennico, Kirby Runyon, Leslie A. Young, Marc W. Buie, Mark R. Showalter, Oliver L. White, Orkan M. Umurhan, Paul M. Schenk, Richard P. Binzel, Ross A. Beyer, S. Alan Stern, S. B. Porter, Simon J. Robbins, Ted Stryk, Tod R. Lauer, Veronica J. Bray, William B. McKinnon, Will M. Grundy

arxiv:1604.05702 v1 · 2016-04-19 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PSG234JCL5US6SOUMCDJKP6AK4}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:16:37.951243Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7c8dadf1225f692f49d46086953fc0572afb26f04d11cc0be862d3116ff1831b

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.05702 · arxiv_version: 1604.05702v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.05702 · pith_short_12: PSG234JCL5US · pith_short_16: PSG234JCL5US6SOU · pith_short_8: PSG234JC

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/PSG234JCL5US6SOUMCDJKP6AK4 \
  | 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: 7c8dadf1225f692f49d46086953fc0572afb26f04d11cc0be862d3116ff1831b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ad734d20a8375aee8a9579364cd566f6e35ba54e027ae52473cca22f863eaa9a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-19T19:38:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "4b84912c0aae8bdbe0054c82618e880d428e799a07640823796826c9ec5685fc"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.05702",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}