This cache represents Venus in orbit around the Sun. It is hidden along a byway about 5.3km from the Lovell telescope. At our scale Venus is about 66cm in diameter - the size of a 4x4 tyre.
The cache is hidden within the enclosed area of the byway. There's no need to go off it onto the adjoining farmland.
Venus
Venus is the second planet in the solar system. It has the least eccentric orbit of the planets, travelling in an almost circular path about 108 million km from the Sun. At a diameter of 12,100 km it is 95% the size of the Earth.
It takes 225 Earth days to orbit the Sun, and rotates even slower on its own axis taking 243 Earth days to complete one rotation. It rotates on its axis in the opposite direction to the other planets.
Its surface is mostly flat with occasional craters. Its atmosphere is about 90 times the pressure of the Earth's, and consists mostly of carbon dioxide beneath sulfuric acid clouds. This gives a surface temperature of over 460 degrees C, so it is much hotter on Venus than on Mercury even though further from the Sun.