Pith Number

pith:WYV7IGEB

pith:2017:WYV7IGEBVZTJZLYXV3JMBRMIVS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

All planetesimals born near the Kuiper Belt formed as binaries

Audrey Delsanti, Brett Gladman, Chad Trujillo, David Nesvornyy, Jean-Marc Petit, J. J. Kavelaars, Kathryn Volk, Keith Noll, Matthew J. Lehner, Megan E. Schwamb, Michael Marsset, Michele T. Bannister, Mike Alexandersen, Pedro Lacerda, Rosemary E. Pike, Scott Sheppard, Shiang-Yu Wang, Stephen Gwyn, Susan Benecchi, Todd Burdullis, Wesley C. Fraser, Ying-Tung Chen

arxiv:1705.00683 v1 · 2017-05-01 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WYV7IGEBVZTJZLYXV3JMBRMIVS}

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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	2026-05-18T00:45:10.170973Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b62bf41881ae669caf17aed2c0c588ac86c844b32895f0f8176c5d010fe16b08

Aliases

arxiv: 1705.00683 · arxiv_version: 1705.00683v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1705.00683 · pith_short_12: WYV7IGEBVZTJ · pith_short_16: WYV7IGEBVZTJZLYX · pith_short_8: WYV7IGEB

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/WYV7IGEBVZTJZLYXV3JMBRMIVS \
  | 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: b62bf41881ae669caf17aed2c0c588ac86c844b32895f0f8176c5d010fe16b08

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "613009ee82b084cd9a13f73982cc1025cde332c80079e29e4214c1eaeeaedd5d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-05-01T19:49:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f465ad7e0d0f1f29cb0903eb97d512de1b2d2725bfbd050bf03d504557f85f25"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1705.00683",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}