Pith Number

pith:VSJWYWTL

pith:2021:VSJWYWTLXV5CHV32OCEDQLPQIJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Taurid stream #628: a reservoir of large cometary impactors

Benjamin A. D. Hartig, Eleanor K. Sansom, Hadrien A. R. Devillepoix, Jim Albers, Martin C. Towner, Martin Cup\'ak, Patrick Shober, Peter Jenniskens, Philip A. Bland, Robert M. Howie, Seamus Anderson, Trent Jansen-Sturgeon

arxiv:2108.08450 v1 · 2021-08-19 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VSJWYWTLXV5CHV32OCEDQLPQIJ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-07-05T03:07:09.968473Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ac936c5a6bbd7a23d77a7088382df04278c8d0d7b5c9e2d4ea7f15c6cd7cab8e

Aliases

arxiv: 2108.08450 · arxiv_version: 2108.08450v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2108.08450 · pith_short_12: VSJWYWTLXV5C · pith_short_16: VSJWYWTLXV5CHV32 · pith_short_8: VSJWYWTL

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/VSJWYWTLXV5CHV32OCEDQLPQIJ \
  | 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: ac936c5a6bbd7a23d77a7088382df04278c8d0d7b5c9e2d4ea7f15c6cd7cab8e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "69740d7c9d4fef984b4f3aa0c2f28e095e095da834e74f86cdfc365efb13075c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2021-08-19T02:49:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a0a12b55386900740c22e4e9da10192fdc45d01386fcc7ca5f89107957cb9eef"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2108.08450",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}