Mercury Traditional Cache

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Reviewer Smith: Panther in the Den
As this cache was not reactivated within the 30-day window noted within the reviewer/disable note, the listing will now be archived.

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Hidden : 3/7/2008
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

Please note! This is the big city of Chicago and if a muggle happens to see the container he will steal it. Please replace the container so it will not be seen. Thanks!

A regular sized Lock-n-Lock. This is a cache in a series that represents a scale model of the solar system at 66 million to one scale. Please look inside the cache for a scale model of this planet and the scale data. The inner dome of the Adler Planetatrium represents the surface of The Sun.

Mercury is the innermost and smallest planet in the solar system, orbiting the Sun once every 88 days. Comparatively little is known about it; the first of two spacecraft to approach Mercury was Mariner 10 from 1974 to 1975, which mapped only about 45% of the planet’s surface. The second was the MESSENGER spacecraft, which mapped another 30% of the planet. MESSENGER will make two more passes by Mercury, followed by orbital insertion in 2011, and will survey and map the entire planet.






Physically, Mercury is similar in appearance to the Moon. It is heavily cratered, has no natural satellites and no substantial atmosphere. It has a large iron core, which generates a magnetic field about 1% as strong as that of the Earth. It is an exceptionally dense planet due to the large size of its core. The surface temperatures on Mercury range from about 90 to 700 K (-180 to 430 °C), with the subsolar point being the hottest and the bottoms of craters near the poles being the coldest.

Info from and more available at Wikipedia and here.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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