Pith Number

pith:QAV52JKE

pith:2012:QAV52JKEYXLXIB2U5XKMHR2NVB

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

On the formation and evolution of asteroid belts and their potential significance for life

Mario Livio, Rebecca G. Martin

arxiv:1211.0023 v1 · 2012-10-31 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QAV52JKEYXLXIB2U5XKMHR2NVB}

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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	2026-05-18T01:53:27.323663Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

802bdd2544c5d7740754edd4c3c74da8577fafc24e591dd629d646c68f29632b

Aliases

arxiv: 1211.0023 · arxiv_version: 1211.0023v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1211.0023 · pith_short_12: QAV52JKEYXLX · pith_short_16: QAV52JKEYXLXIB2U · pith_short_8: QAV52JKE

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/QAV52JKEYXLXIB2U5XKMHR2NVB \
  | 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: 802bdd2544c5d7740754edd4c3c74da8577fafc24e591dd629d646c68f29632b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fa2e018ba2ca5c6c3c5aed5f0b3f3d44aeb5df7fa8f88e3eca840c8098dd59f6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-31T20:26:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "25e74e4ec2118ae5a444093d2ea74c4c6eac6189edeb99b45387a55a7095490c"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1211.0023",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}