Pith Number

pith:Z3PGPYCL

pith:2017:Z3PGPYCLDBZQO6PMFBOVNVYL3Y

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The Geometric Magnitude and Albedo for the Globe of Saturn

Anthony Mallama, Hristo Pavlov

arxiv:1701.00256 v1 · 2017-01-01 · astro-ph.EP

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Z3PGPYCLDBZQO6PMFBOVNVYL3Y}

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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	2026-05-18T00:53:35.967221Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

cede67e04b18730779ec285d56d70bde169b5ca10fb9be9376152fc815c13b0a

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.00256 · arxiv_version: 1701.00256v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.00256 · pith_short_12: Z3PGPYCLDBZQ · pith_short_16: Z3PGPYCLDBZQO6PM · pith_short_8: Z3PGPYCL

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/Z3PGPYCLDBZQO6PMFBOVNVYL3Y \
  | 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: cede67e04b18730779ec285d56d70bde169b5ca10fb9be9376152fc815c13b0a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5d05f2f3075bea915535fb98c4066352b88ef08e599f83acc433c1f5a4719743",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.EP",
    "submitted_at": "2017-01-01T16:00:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "680714e0eda5be8f097a712718294b48cb7c2f69582c66c3b160eeaa26d682f2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.00256",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}