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The Sun Traditional Geocache

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chaosmanor: It is now safe to archive this cache. We have moved the Sun {[:O]!!} to a new location.

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Hidden : 12/23/2005
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
2.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   small (small)

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Geocache Description:

We adopted this series from BLIG. The Descriptions remain much as he wrote them, with some minor edits, plus updated information where needed. D/T ratings have generally not changed, to be fair to earlier Finders, although some of these are much easier than they once were. On the logsheet is a number, which is needed to find the Solar System Tour mystery cache.

In doing a maintenance run, several years after our previous visit, we could not remember how we got to the cache from the main road, so wound up taking a poor way in. It appears that others have used it, but it isn't really a good way to go. The best, easiest, safest (i.e. no cactus) approach is from the main road, in a wide area that is about 30-40 feet west of a road that heads north (toward the power towers). This wide area is also just a few steps east of a half-exposed metal pipe that used to be entirely under the old ranch road. Game paths are numerous, and there is very little cactus.

Sun

Sun is personified in many mythologies: the Greeks called it Helios and the Romans called it Sol. In ancient Egypt, Ra (later Atum-Ra) was the sun-god.  

 

 

Temperature:    5,800 K (Surface)
Diameter: 1,390,000 km
Mass:     1.989e30 kg

The Sun is by far the largest object in the solar system. It contains more than 99.8% of the total mass of the Solar System (Jupiter contains most of the rest)

 
As always, use caution when reaching in bushes and under rocks.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Vg'f gur bayl ebpx nebhaq

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)