Pith Number

pith:VVEMV7W6

pith:2012:VVEMV7W6L4KOQX4XH3EY62DPCD

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Measuring the Abundance of sub-kilometer sized Kuiper Belt Objects using Stellar Occultations

Avishay Gal-Yam, Edmund P. Nelan, Eran O. Ofek, Hilke E. Schlichting, Mario Livio, Michael Wenz, Nikta Javanfar, Philip Muirhead, Re'em Sari

arxiv:1210.8155 v1 · 2012-10-30 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VVEMV7W6L4KOQX4XH3EY62DPCD}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-18T01:53:35.322365Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ad48cafede5f14e85f973ec98f686f10d2e32049e642a2108b61762a0cd77591

Aliases

arxiv: 1210.8155 · arxiv_version: 1210.8155v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1210.8155 · pith_short_12: VVEMV7W6L4KO · pith_short_16: VVEMV7W6L4KOQX4X · pith_short_8: VVEMV7W6

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/VVEMV7W6L4KOQX4XH3EY62DPCD \
  | 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: ad48cafede5f14e85f973ec98f686f10d2e32049e642a2108b61762a0cd77591

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a3c372cc9848a041104c60043fcdca8a7c0ce6580ffa799dacd55d00f28a6dc5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2012-10-30T20:02:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "654bb71eb30b79cc6d1fc1ce3c794c0cf592e9d053b4c943281d12a1c5ac2fa5"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1210.8155",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}