Pith Number

pith:RX5XP353

pith:2002:RX5XP353R33D3M4KBBEUBZ26FH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Mission to Test the Pioneer Anomaly

John D. Anderson, Michael Martin Nieto, Slava G. Turyshev

arxiv:gr-qc/0205059 v3 · 2002-05-15 · gr-qc

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RX5XP353R33D3M4KBBEUBZ26FH}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

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	2026-07-04T16:33:44.239423Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8dfb77efbb8ef63db38a084940e75e29c9c0b8021c599cb3fad1354f30bc57d6

Aliases

arxiv: gr-qc/0205059 · arxiv_version: gr-qc/0205059v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.gr-qc/0205059 · pith_short_12: RX5XP353R33D · pith_short_16: RX5XP353R33D3M4K · pith_short_8: RX5XP353

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/RX5XP353R33D3M4KBBEUBZ26FH \
  | 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: 8dfb77efbb8ef63db38a084940e75e29c9c0b8021c599cb3fad1354f30bc57d6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "da6bc8814a37efa8ed64aaa8a480f488b3322931bf3a24ae3a4ebec9cedf9180",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "gr-qc",
    "submitted_at": "2002-05-15T19:33:18Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0ccb25d71ba37fb3db4f3852c78a7135477966e8b62d855d28f427d7d9a87080"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "gr-qc/0205059",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}