Pith Number

pith:VDBFAF44

pith:2009:VDBFAF44LNAFESDOFRF732C2Q5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Hayabusa Spacecraft Asteroid Multi-Band Imaging Camera: AMICA

Akiko M. Nakamura, Akito Sogame, Aya Yamamoto, David J. Tholen, Etsuko Nemoto, Hirohide Demura, Jun Saito, Kohei Kitazato, Masateru Ishiguro, Naru Hirata, Ryosuke Nakamura, Takashi Kubota, Tatsuaki Hashimoto, Yasuhiro Yokota, Yuta Higuchi

arxiv:0912.4797 v1 · 2009-12-24 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VDBFAF44LNAFESDOFRF732C2Q5}

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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	2026-05-18T02:10:13.921429Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8c250179c5b4052486e2c4bfde85a875af4a6eca9ec3dd357db85b84229a864

Aliases

arxiv: 0912.4797 · arxiv_version: 0912.4797v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0912.4797 · pith_short_12: VDBFAF44LNAF · pith_short_16: VDBFAF44LNAFESDO · pith_short_8: VDBFAF44

Agent API

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VDBFAF44LNAFESDOFRF732C2Q5 \
  | 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: a8c250179c5b4052486e2c4bfde85a875af4a6eca9ec3dd357db85b84229a864

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d7deddf33b181a5c93cfd6462db66313c3783f4104c86c422b955dd7c30453e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2009-12-24T05:47:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "57bb834eeca00b520af5351521c603bde403aefd36374e796da953cbbc2cd6c5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0912.4797",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}