Atomic "Family" Mystery Cache
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The cache is not at the published coordinates but it is within walking distance from these coordinates. You will need to solve the puzzle on the cache page to find the real coordinates of the cache. This may require you to do a little research beforehand to get the answers to the puzzle. The cache is a small camofluaged clip-lock container with a log book and pencil, and is big enough for geocoins and small travel bugs.
“Old Mother" Uranium was 238. A really old lady, she was HEAVY and slow, but she had been around since the beginning of the Solar System. Eventually, she gave up an Alpha and her Daughter Thorium was born.
Thorium, was a “feisty” young lady and didn’t hang around. After loosing two Betas (via her short-lived daughter Protactinium) her Grandaughter was born, whom she named Uranium after her own Mother.
"Young" Uranium was not as “feisty” as either her Mother or her Grandmother had been. Nevertheless, she also didn’t stick around for more than a few thousand years, before she also gave up an Alpha to have her own daughter, whom "Young" Uranium named after her Grandmother.
In time, “Young" Uranium’s Daughter had her own child, after she too lost an Alpha. This youngest girl remained unknown until she was found by Marie.
Who is the Great Great Great Grandaughter of “Old Uranium”? If you can find her, then her “glow” may light the way to the cache. Her secret is in the shift given by the following formula: N52 47.(235 minus Neutrons) W001 14.(708 plus Protons).
The final cache is hidden alongside a public footpath near to the Gorse Covert parkland area.
Within the cache there is a "prize" of an unregistered Groundspeak "First-to-Find" Signal Geocoin for the first person to find the cache.
You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.
****CONGRATULATIONS TO KaosCL ON HER FIRST-TO-FIND******
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Chmmyr:
1) N "phevbhf" svaq
2) Ahpyrne fgehpgher
3) Nycun rdhvinyrag gb Ur
4) β = ryrpgeba. Gb "ybbfr" guvf jvyy "tnva" lbh C ohg bayl ng gur "rkcrafr" bs A
Pnpur:
Uvqqra va n pyrsg ng gur onfr bs n zhygv-gehaxrq gerr