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Comet Halley Mystery Cache

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OReviewer: As there has been no response by the cache owner to the previous note, I am forced to archive this listing.

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Hidden : 1/6/2008
Difficulty:
2.5 out of 5
Terrain:
3 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

The cache is not at the above listed coordinates.
Part of the Finding Pluto Series, you must locate Uranus and apply the offset.
See Finding Pluto for the full story.

Comet Halley is one of the more famous of the celestial bodies called comets. It is named after the man who predicted its return every 76 years. He did not live long enough to see his theory come true. Its next visit will be in 2062.

Comets are sometimes called “dirty snowballs” as they are a cold frozen gases and rocky materials. Comets orbit around the sun in long, elliptical paths; they spend most of their time in the frozen outer planet region.

As they get near to the Sun and are heated, the volatile gases evaporate and boil, creating a visible glowing head and tail. Surprisingly, the glowing tail does not trail in the path of travel, but points away from the Sun, driven by the Solar wind. Comets actually have multiple tails, with all the different materials coming off of it. Each visit near the sun the comet melts more and more until there is just a rocky core left and it becomes, just another asteroid.

To locate the camo'd micro Comet Halley make the following adjustments to Uranus’s decimal minutes
Add 0.358 to the North Decimal Minutes
Add 0.472 to the West Decimal Minutes

Supply Caches
along your Route
The Sun Earth’s Moon Ceres
Jupiter's Ganymede Saturn's Titan Uranus' Oberon
Comet Halley Neptune's Triton Finding Pluto
The terrain rating on all caches reflect "walking" from The Sun.

FTF Congrats go to mblatch, ericles, moya crew and veni_vidi_vici !

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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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)