Pith Number

pith:WA5Y5TQI

pith:2017:WA5Y5TQIKU4TI2I5VAJRJWPRUD

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The Rosetta mission orbiter Science overview the comet phase

B. J. Buratti, M. Choukroun, M.G.G.T. Taylor, N. Altobelli

arxiv:1703.10462 v1 · 2017-03-30 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WA5Y5TQIKU4TI2I5VAJRJWPRUD}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:41:36.030437Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b03b8ece08553934691da81314d9f1a0fa9007a3fa322d4a6ceb83b794151f7c

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.10462 · arxiv_version: 1703.10462v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.10462 · pith_short_12: WA5Y5TQIKU4T · pith_short_16: WA5Y5TQIKU4TI2I5 · pith_short_8: WA5Y5TQI

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/WA5Y5TQIKU4TI2I5VAJRJWPRUD \
  | 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: b03b8ece08553934691da81314d9f1a0fa9007a3fa322d4a6ceb83b794151f7c

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c8804709f9cfc6ba6cd84cc174ca048f0a194e28b194effd76351a3e57df7cb7",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-30T13:29:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a1a86298b00cc7b2a0c42111d8f28fb65f66e0ef9129299c48d35d49cc4c5ffa"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.10462",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}