July 20 th 2009 marked the 40 th anniversary
of that bloke Neil setting foot on the
moon.
"That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind." he
said as he jumped onto the cheesy surface.
So I have taken my own small step for geocaching kind and made it
my mission to hide a cache to commemorate the
event.
Please commit yourself to achieving the goal, before this decade
is out, of finding the cache and returning it safely to the hiding
spot.
The table below contains the sites of each of the six moon
landings, with its location, in alphabetical
order.
You will need to rearrange the table into the order each moon
landing occurred, between 1969 and 1972.
|
Site Location |
Latitude |
Longitude |
|
Descartes |
08°59'29"S |
15°30'52"E |
|
Fra Mauro |
03°40'24"S |
17°27'55"W |
|
Hadley-Apennines |
26°06'03"N |
03°39'10"E |
|
Mare Tranquillitatis |
00°41'15"N |
23°26'00"E |
|
Oceanus Procellarum |
03°11'51"S |
23°23'08"W |
|
Taurus-Littrow |
20°09'55"N |
30°45'57"E |
Cache is located at S27 26.ABC E153 03.XYZ
Where :
A = the sum of the two digits in the seconds of the latitude of the
first moon landing.
B = the product of the two digits in the minutes of the latitude of
the fourth moon landing.
C = the second digit of the seconds in the latitude of the sixth
moon landing.
X = last digit of the seconds in the longitude of the second moon
landing.
Y = first digit of the minutes in the longitude of the third moon
landing.
Z = sum of the digits in the degrees of the longitude of the fifth
moon landing.
Enjoy !