Scale Model: The Sun Mystery Cache

This cache is the first in a series of caches building a scale model of our solar system. I have placed a cache for every planet in our solar system, placed at the appropriate distance from the sun for our scale. I've tried to give you an idea of how big each is relative to each other and to the sun.

Each cache page will have some information to help you find that cache, and each can be solved independently, but for some there may be some useful information on this page as well. Hard to know where a planet is if you don’t know where its star is, right?

Although the cache container (and log book) isn’t there, our solar model is centered on the posted coordinates for this cache. (Hey, that was easy!) At that site, you’ll see a glass tower. We'll pretend our sun is there. We're building a model at One one-hundred-millionths scale. At that scale, our sun would be almost as big around as that tower. If you think of giant ball of hydrogen and helium burning inside the top of that tower when looking for the planets later, you’ll get the idea of how small the planets really are. Coincidentally our sun is also about the size of some other big yellow objects that show up with school kids!

This cache is a simple offset. I'll be good practice for the next few caches in the series. 

To reach the cache container, you simply need to go 40 meters at a bearing of 262 degrees. 

The planets might turn out to be a bit more tricky.

The cache is a magnetic key holder, out of sight of prying eyes. Watch out for muggles, and be careful you don't drop it. It'll be tough to get it back if you do. Once you sign the log, maybe you should go inside. They probably have all kinds of information about the solar system!

All of the caches in the series: