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pith:PTCB7OLU

pith:2019:PTCB7OLUEB7TI7BIBQXGE3IX6D
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Episodically Active Asteroid 6478 Gault

David Jewitt, Jane Luu, Jayadev Rajagopal, Ralf Kotulla, Susan Ridgway, Wilson Liu, Yoonyoung Kim

arxiv:1904.07100 v2 · 2019-04-15 · astro-ph.EP

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Canonical hash

7cc41fb974207f347c280c2e626d17f0e301727fbaba790054d6a71892ea8170

Aliases

arxiv: 1904.07100 · arxiv_version: 1904.07100v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1904.07100 · pith_short_12: PTCB7OLUEB7T · pith_short_16: PTCB7OLUEB7TI7BI · pith_short_8: PTCB7OLU
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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/PTCB7OLUEB7TI7BIBQXGE3IX6D \
  | 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: 7cc41fb974207f347c280c2e626d17f0e301727fbaba790054d6a71892ea8170
Canonical record JSON
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