Pith Number

pith:QFVU5AN4

pith:2008:QFVU5AN437GBC2RXI72KCLXLWJ

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The Scattered Disk as the source of the Jupiter Family comets

Kathryn Volk, Planetary Laboratory, Renu Malhotra (Lunar, University of Arizona)

arxiv:0802.3913 v2 · 2008-02-26 · astro-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{QFVU5AN437GBC2RXI72KCLXLWJ}

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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.

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1 paper in Pith

Multi-year Ground-Based Survey Photometry of Active Comet 103P/Hartley 2 and Centaur (2060) Chiron: A Tale of Two Comets in the Pre-LSST Era

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First computed	2026-07-04T17:09:35.444039Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

816b4e81bcdfcc116a3747f4a12eebb279fb6e14d55305068e6fba50e302a189

Aliases

arxiv: 0802.3913 · arxiv_version: 0802.3913v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0802.3913 · pith_short_12: QFVU5AN437GB · pith_short_16: QFVU5AN437GBC2RX · pith_short_8: QFVU5AN4

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/QFVU5AN437GBC2RXI72KCLXLWJ \
  | 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: 816b4e81bcdfcc116a3747f4a12eebb279fb6e14d55305068e6fba50e302a189

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b9cc230a0cb0bddccba084ee5e6ef35d9bfbcd2b31dfa30dceab1ce589fcd471",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2008-02-26T21:30:44Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "854dc08eb719e35dea381b9b55fd93bdd86f2eabab2f51903fd30fb1a12a7597"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0802.3913",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}