Pith Number

pith:UKLLWA2G

pith:2019:UKLLWA2G2HI5CO6D3J5MUNXGQA

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Kuiperian Objects and Wandering Cosmic Objects

Gilles Couture

arxiv:1908.06191 v1 · 2019-08-16 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UKLLWA2G2HI5CO6D3J5MUNXGQA}

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Record completeness

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-04T23:58:13.403070Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a296bb0346d1d1d13bc3da7aca36e680165a95de3d83340ce18150ca70f42d88

Aliases

arxiv: 1908.06191 · arxiv_version: 1908.06191v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1908.06191 · pith_short_12: UKLLWA2G2HI5 · pith_short_16: UKLLWA2G2HI5CO6D · pith_short_8: UKLLWA2G

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/UKLLWA2G2HI5CO6D3J5MUNXGQA \
  | 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: a296bb0346d1d1d13bc3da7aca36e680165a95de3d83340ce18150ca70f42d88

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "670e998acea2187fedf0bb4512e297d6d4947021e9c19838974a058673363a7a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2019-08-16T22:04:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b482cf952165748526cede13e8deac3b17477fe4d8c968f93197a60d147fbdaa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1908.06191",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}