Pith Number

pith:VN4KUSUW

pith:2019:VN4KUSUWBKJHNN2TPUH2NGPB44

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On the Anomalous Acceleration of 1I/2017 U1 `Oumuamua

Darryl Seligman, Gregory Laughlin, Konstantin Batygin

arxiv:1903.04723 v1 · 2019-03-12 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VN4KUSUWBKJHNN2TPUH2NGPB44}

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4 Citations 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.

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1 paper in Pith

The Natural History of 'Oumuamua

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First computed	2026-05-17T23:46:18.249180Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab78aa4a960a9276b7537d0fa699e1e7273d75c1f8cf3a62c040bb1ce76666d1

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.04723 · arxiv_version: 1903.04723v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.04723 · pith_short_12: VN4KUSUWBKJH · pith_short_16: VN4KUSUWBKJHNN2T · pith_short_8: VN4KUSUW

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VN4KUSUWBKJHNN2TPUH2NGPB44 \
  | 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: ab78aa4a960a9276b7537d0fa699e1e7273d75c1f8cf3a62c040bb1ce76666d1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4e40c985f61f7e1817ac08cdee700ab01cf827e609acfb2146c59fdab6b4f759",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-12T04:25:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1aed57616ac29d5d5fcca9881f4911fb9e864a4a2e874a17c06df8a53bd74370"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.04723",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}