Pith Number

pith:U5RQ5C3I

pith:2022:U5RQ5C3IYUH4XBWIT65NPUDPXQ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Targeted Search for Main Belt Comets

Agata Ro\.zek, Alan Fitzsimmons, Colin Snodgrass, Cyrielle Opitom, Daniel Gardener, Henry H. Hsieh, Hissa Medeiros, L\'ea Ferellec, Richard Smith

arxiv:2211.01435 v1 · 2022-11-02 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U5RQ5C3IYUH4XBWIT65NPUDPXQ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-05T05:15:00.816966Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a7630e8b68c50fcb86c89fbad7d06fbc385378ce98d3ffbdc519301c0a2cbb25

Aliases

arxiv: 2211.01435 · arxiv_version: 2211.01435v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2211.01435 · pith_short_12: U5RQ5C3IYUH4 · pith_short_16: U5RQ5C3IYUH4XBWI · pith_short_8: U5RQ5C3I

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/U5RQ5C3IYUH4XBWIT65NPUDPXQ \
  | 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: a7630e8b68c50fcb86c89fbad7d06fbc385378ce98d3ffbdc519301c0a2cbb25

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2d2d40ed1c14284809f97a268f0198c7683007e0e3d70e6f0a1c8d9fe7a21911",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2022-11-02T19:04:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c808dc3bc6e0f261bf13dc8e0d97d8e33aebf66c48e500e22c1cb40f4588d2d5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2211.01435",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}