The cache is not located at the above coordinates, but can be found within a radius of 6.34214046 × 10-13 light years. These coordinates are suitable for parking your spaceship - a cloaking device is recommended during the day.
This cache is protected by a force field. You will not need to damage anything to retrieve it - just think laterally.
Please put the cache back exactly as you find it. Try to make sure it cannot be seen from orbit. You should be relatively safe from the local muggloids.
There may be fluffy white creatures nearby - don't worry, they aren't very dangerous, but please take care when trying to land your spaceship or walk your astrodog.
Map to Cache:
a possible clue
Scene: The Milky Way Galaxy. A rather ordinary collection of planets orbiting a rather ordinary yellow dwarf located within the rim of the Orion arm.
The Sun: Thanks for coming dear Planets, especially at such short notice. As you all know this is our first puzzle cache and we don't want to make it too hard, after all, we want our alien visitors to actually find it. We will have to put this cache somewhere on Earth, or at least in the near vicinity, but for the next one we can be more adventurous. I like good puzzles, but not too hard as they bring me out in spots. Has anyone got any ideas.
Mercury (the first to hear): How about this; each planet could stand for a number, and then we do a sort of visual quiz as well. Something that cachers can solve with the help of the internet but without needing a calculator or a degree in astrophysics.
The Sun: Good Idea, I like it. I can see a problem though, there are only 8 Planets and this code idea of yours would need 10. The planets are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
Pluto (from far away): What about me - I'm a planet too!
The Earth: Sorry dear chap, According to the IAU, as of 2006 you are now classed as a dwarf planet, like little Ceres.
Neptune (coldly): Yes - just a slightly disturbed Kuiper Belt Object, if you ask me.
Pluto: Hey, cut it out pal! I may be eccentric, but I have feelings too!
The Sun: Calm Down please. If we take my 8 planets and my 2 closest dwarf planets then we have 10 planet type things we can use for the puzzle code. Now we just have to decide the order. From my point of view, Mercury should be 1, Venus should be 2, etc, all the way through to Pluto which can represent 0.
Jupiter: Well obviously I should be 1, because I'm the largest, then Saturn would be 2 and so on.
Saturn: Well, I'm the most beautiful and the least dense - I would actually float on water you know.
Earth: I'd like to see that, but don't come anywhere near my Oceans please. Look, I was the first to be discovered by humans, perhaps I should be number 1! I have the most geocaches too.
Mars: Well dear Earth, my caches wouldn't be called geocaches, they would be areocaches. But first those humans need to develop some space qualified tupperware - apparently NASA are working on it. As for my outstanding qualities, I have the highest mountains the in the solar system, therefore I should be the number 1.
Pluto: Look, I have no idea what my caches would be called, but they would definitely be rated 6/6. BTW, I'm the most eccentric, the furthest away and the most inclined, I have the largest moon in relation to my size - I am the number one in so many ways. Plus, I'm a cute cartoon character and I have the most friends on Spacebook.
Ceres: (who, slightly overawed to be included, had been keeping quiet up until now) When it comes to rotation rate, I'm the numero uno. I'm the smallest too.
Uranus: Well I'm the coldest and the first to be discovered by telescope.
Neptune: .. and I have the fastest wind speeds in the solar system - over 1200 km/h - I should be number one.
Venus: Yes, you are an old windbag, Neptune. As for me, I'm simply the hottest and the most oblique - my axial tilt is nearly 180 degrees.
The Earth: My Dear Venus, that's just an excuse for being backwards.
Venus: At least I'm not partially naked - you can't see through my clouds!
The Earth: Oh, don't be so hot and acidic...
The Sun: Enough! Thanks for the ideas team, but I've made an executive decision on this so as to keep the peace. The cachers can look up the answers on WikiPedia - it will be a doddle, something that even the youngest beings can solve. Everyone will learn something too. I've found a few nice pictures of you all too. Now all the cachers have to do is put the planets in the right order and then solve the little visual puzzle.
(*) Abg gb fpnyr
Alien tourists on their way to planetary pickle