Pith Number

pith:YAQXTVWJ

pith:2014:YAQXTVWJZEPD7BIHSNCITOL7QJ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

NEOWISE observations of comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) as it approaches Mars

A . K. Mainzer, F. J. Masci, J. M. Bauer, R. M. Cutri, R. Stevenson

arxiv:1412.2117 v1 · 2014-12-05 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YAQXTVWJZEPD7BIHSNCITOL7QJ}

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:41:21.299779Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c02179d6c9c91e3f8507934489b97f825e434fd4e3020a6909d91c20d27706e5

Aliases

arxiv: 1412.2117 · arxiv_version: 1412.2117v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1412.2117 · pith_short_12: YAQXTVWJZEPD · pith_short_16: YAQXTVWJZEPD7BIH · pith_short_8: YAQXTVWJ

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/YAQXTVWJZEPD7BIHSNCITOL7QJ \
  | 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: c02179d6c9c91e3f8507934489b97f825e434fd4e3020a6909d91c20d27706e5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "13a722b2d7b3430760e617fb4de7c7f72b18348c554fea5ddfe615c9795d189d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2014-12-05T19:59:11Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7766f41248d27b8de3cc2c8f50be85d2acc19a6dbcd0b234f36d721ee1f782b1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1412.2117",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}