Pith Number

pith:VN4SWACR

pith:2016:VN4SWACRRIXOXPDPVAW3IX4CJM

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Mercury's gravity, tides, and spin from MESSENGER radio science data

Ashok Kumar Verma, Jean-Luc Margot

arxiv:1608.01360 v1 · 2016-08-03 · astro-ph.EP · physics.geo-ph

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\pithnumber{VN4SWACRRIXOXPDPVAW3IX4CJM}

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How to measure tidal dissipation in long resonant chains

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:02:00.087880Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ab792b00518a2eebbc6fa82db45f824b2362cfe491eab8cae2e2a1c3010afd17

Aliases

arxiv: 1608.01360 · arxiv_version: 1608.01360v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1608.01360 · pith_short_12: VN4SWACRRIXO · pith_short_16: VN4SWACRRIXOXPDP · pith_short_8: VN4SWACR

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VN4SWACRRIXOXPDPVAW3IX4CJM \
  | 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: ab792b00518a2eebbc6fa82db45f824b2362cfe491eab8cae2e2a1c3010afd17

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cb15efe399f0807904821d304aca3378849149d24543dea6a9273f68750b21ec",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.geo-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2016-08-03T21:17:20Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "647b36711f48b59c85b27eeae870ad8aada3872cb3a695c0cde0dfe81f89a6b7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1608.01360",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}