Pith Number

pith:QD3W2KI5

pith:2016:QD3W2KI5BP4QERJC7NOXKGVHFQ

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The Asteroid Belt as a Relic From a Chaotic Early Solar System

Alessandro Morbidelli, Andre Izidoro, Arnaud Pierens, David Nesvorny, Othon C. Winter, Sean N. Raymond

arxiv:1609.04970 v1 · 2016-09-16 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QD3W2KI5BP4QERJC7NOXKGVHFQ}

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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	2026-05-18T00:55:11.874910Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

80f76d291d0bf9024522fb5d751aa72c2dae6ca9dafbc8aeaeb1b3f16f2e94d2

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.04970 · arxiv_version: 1609.04970v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.04970 · pith_short_12: QD3W2KI5BP4Q · pith_short_16: QD3W2KI5BP4QERJC · pith_short_8: QD3W2KI5

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/QD3W2KI5BP4QERJC7NOXKGVHFQ \
  | 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: 80f76d291d0bf9024522fb5d751aa72c2dae6ca9dafbc8aeaeb1b3f16f2e94d2

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4d1cd26bf1a037d1ffc328a277f6a8229456d055c69f92add3665980a78337f8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-16T09:40:12Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "211f5c03a7a2926035b8b4a00ed47b5507eba9dcf84f59ef744535056b76222a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.04970",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}