Pith Number

pith:U3X6SEX4

pith:2017:U3X6SEX4DOT7XIBHHU5BNWQWH3

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Implications for planetary system formation from interstellar object 1I/2017 U1 (`Oumuamua)

Alissa Roegge, Chad Trujillo, Colin Orion Chandler, David E. Trilling, Lori M. Glaspie, Mark Loeffler, Nathan Smith, Samuel Navarro-Meza, Tyler Robinson

arxiv:1711.01344 v2 · 2017-11-03 · astro-ph.EP

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\pithnumber{U3X6SEX4DOT7XIBHHU5BNWQWH3}

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The Natural History of 'Oumuamua

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:28:10.489682Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a6efe912fc1ba7fba0273d3a16da163ef4743808e699c0bebe814f5eb0cad6dc

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.01344 · arxiv_version: 1711.01344v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.01344 · pith_short_12: U3X6SEX4DOT7 · pith_short_16: U3X6SEX4DOT7XIBH · pith_short_8: U3X6SEX4

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/U3X6SEX4DOT7XIBHHU5BNWQWH3 \
  | 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: a6efe912fc1ba7fba0273d3a16da163ef4743808e699c0bebe814f5eb0cad6dc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "911704ebd0c505cb32b8ef96a5971e6f04ead815b4316d54e644b2816500a242",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-03T21:44:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f4a52d83dbee98a57aaf7d5d4c682e18ccc3495732024306e25f2e6310faf147"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.01344",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}