B13: Our Solar System: Haumea Traditional Cache
B13: Our Solar System: Haumea
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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.
Haumea, minor-planet designation 136108 Haumea, is a dwarf planet located beyond Neptune's orbit. Just one-third the mass of Pluto, it was discovered in 2004 and on September 17, 2008, it was recognized as a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union (IAU) and named after Haumea, the Hawaiian goddess of childbirth.
Haumea's extreme elongation makes it unique among known dwarf planets. Although its shape has not been directly observed, calculations from its light curve suggest it is an ellipsoid, with its major axis twice as long as its minor. Nonetheless, its gravity is believed sufficient for it to have relaxed into hydrostatic equilibrium, making it a dwarf planet. This elongation, along with its unusually rapid rotation, high density, and high albedo (from a surface of crystalline water ice), are thought to be the results of a giant collision, which left Haumea the largest member of a collisional family that includes several large trans-Neptunian objects (TNOs) and its two known moons, Hi'iaka and Namaka
Information provided by wikipedia.
I hope you enjoy looking for this geocache.
FV
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