Pith Number

pith:RMXT4ZU2

pith:2018:RMXT4ZU2G4PFAY2AIIFCVSJ6ZU

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Rotationally induced failure of irregularly shaped asteroids

Daniel J. Scheeres, Masatoshi Hirabayashi

arxiv:1808.02168 v1 · 2018-08-07 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RMXT4ZU2G4PFAY2AIIFCVSJ6ZU}

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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	2026-05-18T00:08:47.392865Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b2f3e669a371e506340420a2ac93ecd05acbe37d7304552127f954821607fae

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.02168 · arxiv_version: 1808.02168v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.02168 · pith_short_12: RMXT4ZU2G4PF · pith_short_16: RMXT4ZU2G4PFAY2A · pith_short_8: RMXT4ZU2

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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/RMXT4ZU2G4PFAY2AIIFCVSJ6ZU \
  | 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: 8b2f3e669a371e506340420a2ac93ecd05acbe37d7304552127f954821607fae

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e3491cfac77624209bca3ca693198efb70b1a69c7c928b542528df15ab8f6618",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-07T00:43:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c21b74339c2b1784719324c42231a60cffb77f68e50477fbc58a120c33cb5c49"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.02168",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}