Pith Number

pith:UR74SOXW

pith:2017:UR74SOXW2WIPDSKJPJUOYDQGTS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Anatomy of an Asteroid Break-Up: The Case of P/2013 R3

Dave Jewitt, Harold Weaver, Jessica Agarwal, Jing Li, Max Mutchler, Stephen Larson

arxiv:1703.09668 v1 · 2017-03-28 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{UR74SOXW2WIPDSKJPJUOYDQGTS}

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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	2026-05-18T00:45:10.950003Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a47fc93af6d590f1c9497a68ec0e069c901327c2f51708d23eca51f333a6ec57

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.09668 · arxiv_version: 1703.09668v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.09668 · pith_short_12: UR74SOXW2WIP · pith_short_16: UR74SOXW2WIPDSKJ · pith_short_8: UR74SOXW

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/UR74SOXW2WIPDSKJPJUOYDQGTS \
  | 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: a47fc93af6d590f1c9497a68ec0e069c901327c2f51708d23eca51f333a6ec57

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c248b7ea5368e6367354a6062c2286f2d161442e2dd2d11a347cd3e834853bdc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-28T16:56:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "58f66ffb721a797cfab10858be5664c1d97bb0cc58e316a025559524acb31783"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.09668",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}