June is the 6th of 12 months in a year, therefor half way through the year, June 15th (the day this cache was placed) is halfway through June, However this is not halfway through the year, it is not actually halfway through the year until the 7th month! July 2nd is halfway through the year. At noon on this day, Earth has reached the halfway mark on its orbit around the Sun.
Many Many years ago on January 1, 45 B.C. The Roman senate added the month July to honor Julius Caesar for reforming their calender.
Then after Julius's grandnephew Augustus defeated Marc Antony and Cleopatra, and became emperor of Rome, the Roman Senate decided that he too should have a month named after him. The month Sextillus (sex = six) was chosen for Augustus, and the senate justified its actions in the following resolution:
Whereas the Emperor Augustus Caesar, in the month of Sextillis . . . thrice entered the city in triumph . . . and in the same month Egypt was brought under the authority of the Roman people, and in the same month an end was put to the civil wars; and whereas for these reasons the said month is, and has been, most fortunate to this empire, it is hereby decreed by the senate that the said month shall be called Augustus.
Not only did the Senate name a month after Augustus, but it decided that since Julius's month, July, had 31 days, Augustus's month should equal it: under the Julian calendar, the months alternated evenly between 30 and 31 days (with the exception of February), which made August 30 days long. So, instead of August having a mere 30 days, it was lengthened to 31, preventing anyone from claiming that Emperor Augustus was saddled with an inferior month.
To accommodate this change two other calendrical adjustments were necessary:
* The extra day needed to inflate the importance of August was taken from February, which originally had 29 days (30 in a leap year), and was now reduced to 28 days (29 in a leap year). * Since the months evenly alternated between 30 and 31 days, adding the extra day to August meant that July, August, and September would all have 31 days. So to avoid three long months in a row, the lengths of the last four months were switched around, giving us 30 days in September, April, June, and November.
September means seven, however because Julius and Augustus had 2 new months named after them, September is now the ninth month, this is the same with October (means eighth but is now tenth) November (Means ninth but is now eleventh) and December (Means Decade or tenth but is now twelfth)
The south coordinates are: S 36 AB.BBC and the east coordinates are E 144 CA.DEB
To figure these out you need to do some calculations using some of the above information.
A = How many days will have passed on July 2nd 2010? Once you have this answer, minus it by 178 and you will have A.
B = The number of leap years that will have passed from the day this cache was hidden 15/6/2010 to 15/6/2034, This will give you B.
C = How many months have under 30 days?
D & E will need to be figured out with the below information.
The Mars Calender is a lot different to the Earth calender. When the date on Earth is 15/6/2010, the date on Mars is 39/7/0019. Humans have been keeping time on mars for 19 martian years. However Mars orbits the Sun in 686 Earth days, and its day lasts 24 hours 39 minutes, very similar to a day on Earth. Venus has a relatively short year consisting of 225 Earth days, and a day that lasts 243 Earth days! So a year on Venus is shorter than one day, this means that the same side of Venus is almost always facing the sun.
D = How many days extra does it take Earth to travel around the Sun than Venus minus 132.
E = The amount of days it takes Earth and Venus to complete one orbit combined. Minus this number from the amount of days it takes Mars to complete one orbit, Once you have this answer minus it by 89.
Good Luck and enjoy keeping the time!
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