Pith Number

pith:WBSK4KXR

pith:2022:WBSK4KXRY6Y3JZMAMZRJ43ITK6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

TNO or Comet? The Search for Activity and Characterization of Distant Object 418993 (2009 MS9)

Bhuwan C. Bhatt, Devendra K. Sahu, Erica Bufanda, Haynes Stephens, Jacqueline V. Keane, James M. Bauer, Jan T. Kleyna, Karen J. Meech, Marco Micheli, Olivier R. Hainaut, Peter Veres, Richard Wainscoat, Robert Weryk

arxiv:2211.02664 v1 · 2022-11-04 · astro-ph.EP

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WBSK4KXRY6Y3JZMAMZRJ43ITK6}

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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	2026-07-05T05:13:20.255405Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b064ae2af1c7b1b4e58066629e6d13578cf552f5d17468636202631e093261ad

Aliases

arxiv: 2211.02664 · arxiv_version: 2211.02664v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2211.02664 · pith_short_12: WBSK4KXRY6Y3 · pith_short_16: WBSK4KXRY6Y3JZMA · pith_short_8: WBSK4KXR

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/WBSK4KXRY6Y3JZMAMZRJ43ITK6 \
  | 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: b064ae2af1c7b1b4e58066629e6d13578cf552f5d17468636202631e093261ad

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d994ac67f50ca9bf8adc3be5c0286e36382bd7e29a0fb97f6df8194e052e1114",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2022-11-04T18:00:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0a54270ab239a2f1e276a17e24f63c4352156226443220b77fc5d45fe74cb157"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2211.02664",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}