Saturn
I moved the cache to a new, nearby location. Feel free to log a
new find if you have already found this one. Same container, same
park, new spot.
Saturn is also a big planet, over four feet across on our scale,
not counting the rings. For you, Saturn will be a small, round,
black container.
The Series
One of my great loves is astronomy. This series of ten caches is
designed to give you a sense of the size of the solar system by
placing caches at the correct relative locations of the Sun and the
planets. The series is all based on the scale that 1 mile = 1
astronomical unit (AU), which is the distance from the Earth to the
Sun.
Most diagrams of the solar system show the planets all lined up
in a row. That’s not how they are! Although they are all in a
plane, they are almost always in different directions from the Sun.
This series replicates that for the closer planets by placing the
caches at the right distances from the Sun but in a variety of
directions. For the more distant planets, I more or less lined them
up to save on driving.
You do not need to do the series in any order, but I strongly
recommend starting with the Sun if you really want to gain a sense
of the size of our solar system. A couple of the caches hold a
trade item or two. Most are BYOP. I hope you enjoy the series.
