Pith Number

pith:PVF4ACOW

pith:2018:PVF4ACOWCAKJ2BZUZTUESFRN3E

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Great Expectations: Plans and Predictions for New Horizons Encounter with Kuiper Belt Object 2014 MU69 ('Ultima Thule')

Alan D. Howard, Alex H. Parker, Andrew F. Cheng, Anne J. Verbiscer, Bonnie J. Buratti, Carly Howett, Carrie. L. Chavez, Cathy B. Olkin, C. M. Lisse, Dale P. Cruikshank, G. Randall Gladstone, Harold A. Weaver, Henry B. Throop, Jeffrey M. Moore, John R. Spencer, Kelsi N. Singer, Kirby D. Runyon, Leslie A. Young, Marc W. Buie, Mark R. Showalter, Oliver L. White, Orkan M. Umurhan, Paul M. Schenk, Rajani D. Dhingra, Richard P. Binzel, Ross A. Beyer, S. Alan Stern, Simon B. Porter, Stuart J. Robbins, Susan D. Benecchi, Tod R. Lauer, Veronica J. Bray, William B. McKinnon, William M. Grundy

arxiv:1808.02118 v1 · 2018-08-06 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{PVF4ACOWCAKJ2BZUZTUESFRN3E}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T00:08:47.559308Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

7d4bc009d610149d0734cce849162dd90508f81c1abd7134d359a6b4238145de

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.02118 · arxiv_version: 1808.02118v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.02118 · pith_short_12: PVF4ACOWCAKJ · pith_short_16: PVF4ACOWCAKJ2BZU · pith_short_8: PVF4ACOW

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/PVF4ACOWCAKJ2BZUZTUESFRN3E \
  | 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: 7d4bc009d610149d0734cce849162dd90508f81c1abd7134d359a6b4238145de

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4b2ed3e4a1e9b67ad76ff11a71f93b18c1384bf158fc686c33184b930ca1ae95",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-06T21:14:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "04ce1aa00c7b2844de06cbe96302b8bb6c94c07bdbd76b998a598b44e5da7722"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.02118",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}