Pith Number

pith:RVP2HXN5

pith:2026:RVP2HXN5SU6YOSXNJ5DF5KW37Y

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The Billion Dollar Surprise: How Solar Cycle 25 Cut Satellite Lifetimes in LEO

Scott Shambaugh

arxiv:2606.24687 v1 · 2026-06-23 · physics.space-ph

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RVP2HXN5SU6YOSXNJ5DF5KW37Y}

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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	2026-06-24T01:15:39.232881Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8d5fa3ddbd953d874aed4f465eaadbfe06560fb4b3e230d30cad000bbe69bc6d

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.24687 · arxiv_version: 2606.24687v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.24687 · pith_short_12: RVP2HXN5SU6Y · pith_short_16: RVP2HXN5SU6YOSXN · pith_short_8: RVP2HXN5

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/RVP2HXN5SU6YOSXNJ5DF5KW37Y \
  | 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: 8d5fa3ddbd953d874aed4f465eaadbfe06560fb4b3e230d30cad000bbe69bc6d

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5b8828fd63cb4fe741cddd75132ed483c7ff8e757a63af9be01f925b390c2081",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "physics.space-ph",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-23T15:16:42Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "5a459b3dcfdd5d60d581d5e0986ff880121aba44f57e3ac6b03e27927f7aa679"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.24687",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}