Pith Number

pith:XMNK5JCZ

pith:2018:XMNK5JCZPVK5VX2J4ABPUCPJED

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Medium-sized satellites of large Kuiper belt objects

Bryan J. Butler, Michael E. Brown

arxiv:1801.07221 v2 · 2018-01-22 · astro-ph.EP

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First computed	2026-05-18T00:02:01.727559Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bb1aaea4597d55dadf49e002fa09e920f1624036723d3e836895ea2be91ac2e8

Aliases

arxiv: 1801.07221 · arxiv_version: 1801.07221v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1801.07221 · pith_short_12: XMNK5JCZPVK5 · pith_short_16: XMNK5JCZPVK5VX2J · pith_short_8: XMNK5JCZ

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XMNK5JCZPVK5VX2J4ABPUCPJED \
  | 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: bb1aaea4597d55dadf49e002fa09e920f1624036723d3e836895ea2be91ac2e8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8e50f2911fd78cb11f8ff58e3ed701c39f4131b7e4231c9a08110d611ff71700",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2018-01-22T18:01:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "87fdec65a4519ab51aca0e7eed01de4b8b96193efb7fcecb9b4a407fe0bc4e79"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1801.07221",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}