739 Mystery Cache
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The posted coordinates are BOGUS! Do NOT go there!!! You will get run over. This is a puzzle cache. To solve the puzzle you must go to a website and answer some questions to earn the coordinates. Perhaps in doing so you may find out some things about 739 you did not know. These coordinates will take you to a microcache.
This is an easy puzzle cache. In the last few years before selective availability of GPS signals was turned off and geocaching became a new sport, I was an astronomer. All the answers can be found on the website titled "Larry's Astronomy Stuff". Turn the sound up on your computer before you go to that page! Some of the clues are hard to hear.
Just as technology has made accurate gps possible so it made astrophotography and high caliber astrometric measurements possible from a personal computer connected to a CCD camera looking through a robotic telescope.
I built the Sunflower Observatory in my backyard and after awhile started doing real science from my breakfast nook. This soon led to an interest in asteroids and helping in the effort to save mankind from extinction by asteroid impact. In the course of all that robotic observing, I discovered some asteroids and even named a few. I was able to help some others along the way who went on to professional careers in astronomy.
By the end of 2001 it was clear that my contributions were becoming superfluous. The big professional observatories had finally convinced the government to give them enough money to cover the sky every night and did not need my contributions any more.
I went on to do some studies of the rotational periods of asteroids for awhile plotting their LIGHTCURVES in order to help figure out what they were made of and how we might nudge one away from a collision course with Earth. My observations along with those of many others solved that mystery and many conclusions and plans and programs resulted from that work.
The good news is we have many years to go before any known objects will come close to hitting Earth. But maybe something new will be discovered tonight. You just never know.
To find 739, go to the webpage and find the answers to these questions:
NGC5078 is a LESSER KNOWN GALAXY located just northwest of what Messier object? MBA where B and A are numbers.
Alphonse Louis Nicolas discovered his COMET 19P in what year? 19DC where D and C are numbers.
SUPERNOVA SN1999CL occurred in what galaxy? MEE where E is a number.
How many asteroids have I discovered that have been numbered as of the date this cache was published? FG where F and G are numbers.
How many of the asteroids I have discovered have I named after people and places I know? H where H is a number.
How many of my other 5 asteroid discoveries have a principal designation? I where I is a number.
The asteroid 366 Vincentina is a relatively slow rotating body. I used 246 observations of its relative brightness taken over five nights over a period of several months in 2001 to determine its rotational period. That period is 1J.K hours where J and K are numbers.
How many galaxies are included in Halton Arp's Atlas of PEculiar Galaxies? 33M where M is a number.
He photographed them all using the 2LL" Palomar Telescope. L is a number.
Finally, the moon occulted Saturn and I took photos of it while listening to the music playing in the background on the webpage (turn it up) on September 18, 199N where N is a number.
Fill in the numbers for the letters and go find 739.
N AB CD.EFG
W HI JK.LMN
A+B+C+D+E+F+G+H+I+J+K+L+M+N=66
The ammo can was muggled with all the coins and TBs so I have just made this into a simple micro cache.
Now you know what 739 really means.
Cache on!
PS If you do this one at night in the dark, take time to look up at the stars from the cache site. It is a great place to observe the night sky. Very dark!
Congrats to Awhsom for being FTF.
Congrats to taekwonyoda for being STF.
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