Pith Number

pith:U3KKCSK5

pith:2012:U3KKCSK5ANLWIHWSSY74ODSK66

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Measuring the Solar Radius from Space during the 2003 and 2006 Mercury Transits

Isabelle F. Scholl, Jeff R. Kuhn, Marcelo Emilio, Rock I. Bush

arxiv:1203.4898 v1 · 2012-03-22 · astro-ph.SR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U3KKCSK5ANLWIHWSSY74ODSK66}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:58:04.748002Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a6d4a1495d0357641ed2963fc70e4af7aecd60a659bf4fae88be3d8cbe06c3ac

Aliases

arxiv: 1203.4898 · arxiv_version: 1203.4898v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1203.4898 · pith_short_12: U3KKCSK5ANLW · pith_short_16: U3KKCSK5ANLWIHWS · pith_short_8: U3KKCSK5

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/U3KKCSK5ANLWIHWSSY74ODSK66 \
  | 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: a6d4a1495d0357641ed2963fc70e4af7aecd60a659bf4fae88be3d8cbe06c3ac

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "de2f5e04b685c3b15d512f18969b8c02e887c619b7af0d1cfd1821abe5eaddb6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.SR",
    "submitted_at": "2012-03-22T07:33:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f59723935169d72b738819b33fa9057ff2eb7c6d68d90c9e031405430f80e7ac"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1203.4898",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}