B13: Our Solar System: Ceres Traditional Cache
B13: Our Solar System: Ceres
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This cache is one of 14 caches in a series, 13 traditional caches and one puzzle cache. 10 of the caches in the series have numbers under the lids that will be used to find the FINAL cache. The 10 numbers have been randomly distributed within the 13 caches.
The theme for the 2013 BLITZ is Go BIG!
I decided to hide some caches along the Bridal Falls Forest Service Road. This road offers a BIG hike (if you choose to hike it), a BIG view of the Fraser Valley, and now some caches dedicated to one of the biggest things I could think of, our solar system.
You will most likely need a 4x4 vehicle if you plan to drive to the caches in this series.
Ceres, minor-planet designation 1 Ceres, is the only dwarf planet in the inner Solar System, and the largest asteroid. It is a rock–ice body 950 km in diameter, and the smallest identified dwarf planet. Discovered on 1 January 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi, it was the first asteroid to be identified, though it was classified as a planet at the time. It is named after Ceres, the Roman goddess of growing plants, the harvest, and motherly love.
The Cererian surface is probably a mixture of water ice and various hydrated minerals such as carbonates and clays. It appears to be differentiated into a rocky core and icy mantle, and may harbour an ocean of liquid water under its surface.
The unmanned Dawn spacecraft, launched on 27 September 2007 by NASA, is expected to be the first to explore Ceres after its scheduled arrival there in 2015. The spacecraft left asteroid 4 Vesta about 5 September 2012, which it had been orbiting since July 2011.
Information provided by wikipedia.
I hope you enjoy looking for this geocache.
FV
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
ba gbc bs fghzc jvgu gur pnoyr nebhaq vg