Pith Number

pith:WV4OZC5J

pith:2017:WV4OZC5JLCDS3FX2Q323JAWG5V

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Castalia Mission to Main Belt Comet 133P/Elst-Pizarro

A. Fitzsimmons, A. Gibbings, A. Herique, A. J. Coates, A. Masters, A. Morse, A. Pack, A. Rotundi, A. Winterboer, C. Carr, C. Snodgrass, D. Plettemeier, D. Prialnik, E. Jehin, F. Marzari, F. Moreno, G. H. Jones, H. Boehnhardt, H. H. Hsieh, I. Bertini, J. Licandro, J. P. Sanchez, K. J. Meech, K. Laudan, K. L. Donaldson Hanna, L. M. Lara, M. Ceriotti, M. Hilchenbach, M. Homeister, M. Rubin, M. S. Bentley, M. T. Capria, M. Trieloff, N. Andre, N. Bowles, O. Karatekin, O.R. Hainaut, P. Beck, P. J. Gutierrez, R. Orosei, S. C. Lowry, S. Sheridan, V. Della Corte, W. Kofman

arxiv:1709.03405 v1 · 2017-09-11 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WV4OZC5JLCDS3FX2Q323JAWG5V}

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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	2026-05-18T00:03:50.072282Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b578ec8ba958872d96fa86f5b482c6ed7c94e7b3909eaddb171da97ca3583817

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.03405 · arxiv_version: 1709.03405v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.03405 · pith_short_12: WV4OZC5JLCDS · pith_short_16: WV4OZC5JLCDS3FX2 · pith_short_8: WV4OZC5J

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/WV4OZC5JLCDS3FX2Q323JAWG5V \
  | 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: b578ec8ba958872d96fa86f5b482c6ed7c94e7b3909eaddb171da97ca3583817

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7199bcd542f221f32d26ebe00c226cba628f1cebe1fbee37b54f3cb092764fb1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-11T14:29:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "e452f60d0e8596dfd80cb126eb256df805bd0e06ca89191a09015f73600ab043"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.03405",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}