Pith Number

pith:QXM6BDMK

pith:2017:QXM6BDMKG477Q63GNWWK4SUGDX

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The bimodal color distribution of small Kuiper Belt objects

Ian Wong, Michael E. Brown

arxiv:1702.02615 v1 · 2017-02-08 · astro-ph.EP

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\pithnumber{QXM6BDMKG477Q63GNWWK4SUGDX}

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:48:46.597203Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

85d9e08d8a373ff87b666dacae4a861dee1e7866baf5adae55ec18628e477831

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.02615 · arxiv_version: 1702.02615v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.02615 · pith_short_12: QXM6BDMKG477 · pith_short_16: QXM6BDMKG477Q63G · pith_short_8: QXM6BDMK

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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/QXM6BDMKG477Q63GNWWK4SUGDX \
  | 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: 85d9e08d8a373ff87b666dacae4a861dee1e7866baf5adae55ec18628e477831

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3e27a38eddc9b4ce7bf5cf75b8ed99035d78fc4cadac0d1406b3cc932b8eb713",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-08T21:26:15Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2c4908a018ade453191a74332b76594ad155a9a48f6e4dc514185fc564a65c30"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.02615",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}