9 - Brown Dwarf Mystery Cache
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A preform.
The cache is not at the posted coordinates. You must do some simple math to find the final coordinates.
I tried to find a good way into this cache without much luck. Hopefully you will have better luck! Once at the spot there was a nice clearing but not too many hiding spots so the cache is in plain sight.
To solve for the Final Location
Go to the Wikipedia Page for "Brown dwarf".
Locate the 4 digit number representing the year the term "Brown dwarf" was coined by Jill Tarter.
North Coordinates
Take 329.825 and divide it by the year
Subtract it from the posted coordinate.
West Coordinates
Take 493.75 and divide it by the year
Subtract it from the posted coordinate.
Some information
Brown dwarfs, a term coined by Jill Tarter in 1975, were originally called black dwarfs, a classification for dark substellar objects floating freely in space which were too low in mass to sustain stable hydrogen fusion (the term black dwarf currently refers to a white dwarf that has cooled down so that it no longer emits significant heat or visible light).
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Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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