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pith:TEL6LYMV

pith:2019:TEL6LYMV7ZGD4BTLNPT5BUUIMT

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An Autonomous Passive Navigation Method for Nanosatellite Exploration of the Asteroid Belt

Erik Asphaug, Jekan Thangavelautham, Leonard Vance

arxiv:1902.03180 v1 · 2019-02-08 · astro-ph.IM

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{TEL6LYMV7ZGD4BTLNPT5BUUIMT}

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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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First computed	2026-05-17T23:54:27.709769Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

9917e5e195fe4c3e066b6be7d0d28864da52b8c4d23faa374ea062a16c7c5d31

Aliases

arxiv: 1902.03180 · arxiv_version: 1902.03180v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1902.03180 · pith_short_12: TEL6LYMV7ZGD · pith_short_16: TEL6LYMV7ZGD4BTL · pith_short_8: TEL6LYMV

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/TEL6LYMV7ZGD4BTLNPT5BUUIMT \
  | 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: 9917e5e195fe4c3e066b6be7d0d28864da52b8c4d23faa374ea062a16c7c5d31

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b62528a1483c9864e3375c192ea7fb608af44324668e01296d401c83c85855d1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2019-02-08T16:39:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "067de072469be35a0a688ad4df37f499aee8dd1cd22e2f984fde9315113e11a8"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1902.03180",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}