Pith Number

pith:VU2AD27L

pith:2018:VU2AD27LWQ7CWK3DD34YAEIWC2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The 2016 Reactivations of Main-Belt Comets 238P/Read and 288P/(300163) 2006 VW139

Audrey Thirouin, Chadwick A. Trujillo, Henry H. Hsieh, Marco Micheli, Masateru Ishiguro, Matthew M. Knight, Nicholas A. Moskovitz, Scott S. Sheppard, Yoonyoung Kim, Zhong-Yi Lin

arxiv:1809.10309 v1 · 2018-09-27 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VU2AD27LWQ7CWK3DD34YAEIWC2}

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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	2026-05-18T00:01:28.125624Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad3401ebebb43e2b2b631ef98011161692916842dc9f5239cb1c81683aab207f

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.10309 · arxiv_version: 1809.10309v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.10309 · pith_short_12: VU2AD27LWQ7C · pith_short_16: VU2AD27LWQ7CWK3D · pith_short_8: VU2AD27L

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/VU2AD27LWQ7CWK3DD34YAEIWC2 \
  | 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: ad3401ebebb43e2b2b631ef98011161692916842dc9f5239cb1c81683aab207f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c628cbdddd54e7aedef047c804fb6410f15a8157162a6ae48905de3724edcd06",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-27T01:54:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f60b17b23e7da92c71bf4ac5f4da4af39c6e533c689eaee06006225f7a4f2df6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.10309",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}