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pith:2017:YYGJK4TTROS7V7NTDCGVZQKMFQ
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Distribution of shape elongations of main belt asteroids derived from Pan-STARRS1 photometry

C. Waters, D. E. Trilling, E. A. Magnier, E. Schunov\'a-Lilly, H. Cibulkov\'a, H. Flewelling, H. Nortunen, J. \v{D}urech, M. Kaasalainen, M. Mommert, P. Vere\v{s}, R. Jedicke, R. J. Wainscoat

arxiv:1709.05640 v1 · 2017-09-17 · astro-ph.EP

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c60c9572738ba5fafdb3188d5cc14c2c3e0c757ad8a87f4c930c228bf61a2d1d

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arxiv: 1709.05640 · arxiv_version: 1709.05640v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.05640 · pith_short_12: YYGJK4TTROS7 · pith_short_16: YYGJK4TTROS7V7NT · pith_short_8: YYGJK4TT
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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/YYGJK4TTROS7V7NTDCGVZQKMFQ \
  | 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: c60c9572738ba5fafdb3188d5cc14c2c3e0c757ad8a87f4c930c228bf61a2d1d
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