Pith Number

pith:VLSMUKOD

pith:2016:VLSMUKODMAGAZ3HXG7ZLUADMMY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discovery of a Makemakean Moon

Alex H. Parker, Keith S. Noll, Marc W. Buie, Will M. Grundy

arxiv:1604.07461 v1 · 2016-04-25 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VLSMUKODMAGAZ3HXG7ZLUADMMY}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T01:11:30.910213Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

aae4ca29c3600c0cecf737f2ba006c661820662935be880f6f9b0cecce46c8c6

Aliases

arxiv: 1604.07461 · arxiv_version: 1604.07461v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1604.07461 · pith_short_12: VLSMUKODMAGA · pith_short_16: VLSMUKODMAGAZ3HX · pith_short_8: VLSMUKOD

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/VLSMUKODMAGAZ3HXG7ZLUADMMY \
  | 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: aae4ca29c3600c0cecf737f2ba006c661820662935be880f6f9b0cecce46c8c6

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "30de8cd3b93195f6510f71c289f6d15ff1d37443069f622527443449ae9e91b8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2016-04-25T22:16:45Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "dbe4dfbb6213e875b29af1da8cb1ff17d0814eeddb86be55621749b84012b72b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1604.07461",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}