134340 Traditional Cache
Hidden : 2/18/2011
Difficulty:
3.5 out of 5
Terrain:
2 out of 5

Size: Size: small (small)

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Geocache Description:

FTFgoes to Huggy d1!

This cache was placed on February 18, 2011 to commemorate the 81st anniversary of the discovery of Pluto. Once thought to be the ninth planet from the sun, it was demoted to dwarf planet status on August 24, 2006. Pluto, may you Revolve in Peace.

Pluto, in Roman mythology the god of the underworld, orbits an average of 39.5 Astronomical Units from the Sun. In 1930 scientists theorized the presence of a "Planet X" beyond the orbit of Neptune.

In the 1840s, Urbain Le Verrier, a French mathematician who specialized in celestial mechanics and who discovered Neptune, used Newtonian mechanics to explain slight orbital perturbations of both Neptune and Uranus. He theorized the existence of another planet, Planet X, beyond the orbit of Neptune. After Le Verrier’s death in 1877, other scientists calculated the location of Pluto but were unable to locate it.

In 1929, a newly minted astronomer by the name of Clyde Tombaugh arrived at Llowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona and was given the task of finding Planet X. Perhaps it was a form of hazing or simply that the crap jobs go to the new guy, but Tombaugh’s task was to capture a photographic plate of an area of the sky at two week interval. Then compare the plates in the hope of finding something that moved between images. Tombaugh found such evidence in the early 1930s and by February the discovery of Planet X was announced. A worldwide competition to name Planet X was won by an 11 year old British school girl who thought Pluto (in Roman mythology, the God of the Underworld) a befitting name for a dark and cold planet.

Pluto, admitted into the union of planets on February 18, 1930, was demoted to dwarf planet on August 24, 2006 by the International Astronomical Union and designated as 134340 in the small planet catalog.

There is a nearby street with easy parking. You'll want to consult you preferred online mapping tools before you light out.

BYOP

While you're in Loriella Park be sure to search for these other caches: Too Much Stuff!!, We Will Never Forget 9/11 #3, Gotta Get Up...To Get Down, Two-in-the-Bush Games People Play, and The Rabbit Makes its Home.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Gur pnpur ybbxf yvxr n 1 ½” k 2” ohssnyb pbagnvare znqr bs juvgr CIP.

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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