Pith Number

pith:X3R6WH7H

pith:2014:X3R6WH7H4PFUQINKTGWT4CVGOA

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

The Design Reference Asteroid for the OSIRIS-REx Mission Target (101955) Bennu

Bashar Rizk, Beau Bierhaus, Ben C. Clark, Beth E. Clark, Bob Gaskell, Carl W. Hergenrother, Christian Drouet d'Aubigny, Dan Scheeres, Dante S. Lauretta, David D. Vokrouhlick\'y, Driss Takir, Ed Beshore, Ed Cloutis, Ellen Howell, John Marshall, Josh Emery, Lindsay Keller, Marco Delbo, Maria Antonietta Barucci, Michael Kelley, Michael Nolan, Olivier Barnouin, Patrick Michel, Richard P. Binzel, Steve Chesley, William F. Bottke

arxiv:1409.4704 v1 · 2014-09-16 · astro-ph.EP

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{X3R6WH7H4PFUQINKTGWT4CVGOA}

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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	2026-05-18T02:42:45.053623Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bee3eb1fe7e3cb4821aa99ad3e0aa67023e6288c038a0032e1301e0101842c05

Aliases

arxiv: 1409.4704 · arxiv_version: 1409.4704v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1409.4704 · pith_short_12: X3R6WH7H4PFU · pith_short_16: X3R6WH7H4PFUQINK · pith_short_8: X3R6WH7H

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/X3R6WH7H4PFUQINKTGWT4CVGOA \
  | 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: bee3eb1fe7e3cb4821aa99ad3e0aa67023e6288c038a0032e1301e0101842c05

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "9f1db8a8e23f2f907ebab60f06db738332796fb81ceeb3149ad1495f3e7a3d57",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2014-09-16T17:13:28Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "0962e856bf47caf416848031db39b007706ccc02a60c6f11a662ac0895f1cf40"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1409.4704",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}