Pith Number

pith:VMKD3AY3

pith:2026:VMKD3AY3OPE7INDI7SB6GK4OC2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The forced orbital planes of the Plutinos and other resonant KBOs

Ian Matheson, Renu Malhotra

arxiv:2608.05457 v1 · 2026-08-05 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VMKD3AY3OPE7INDI7SB6GK4OC2}

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First computed	2026-08-07T00:47:54.248005Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab143d831b73c9f43468fc83e32b8e16865630b5f38997881020e7a31e9416d0

Aliases

arxiv: 2608.05457 · arxiv_version: 2608.05457v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2608.05457 · pith_short_12: VMKD3AY3OPE7 · pith_short_16: VMKD3AY3OPE7INDI · pith_short_8: VMKD3AY3

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VMKD3AY3OPE7INDI7SB6GK4OC2 \
  | 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: ab143d831b73c9f43468fc83e32b8e16865630b5f38997881020e7a31e9416d0

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9326ed665c13ae71743d164bffe84241b36c5603532faaee4122b1e7d8ec2cfc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2026-08-05T23:05:00Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "199f073d1bd3cca6f6a59ddb694a2b433ef77cb756adbf583c09c761f2fc7fef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2608.05457",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}