The Asteroid Medusa Traditional Cache

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Hidden : 5/29/2013
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size: micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:

An asteroid :) .

This is a cache in a series that represents a scale model of the solar system at 66 million to one scale. The inner dome of the Adler Planetatrium represents the surface of The Sun.

This cache represents the asteroid Medusa.

From Wikipedia:

149 Medusa is a bright-colored, stony main belt asteroid.

It was discovered by J. Perrotin on September 21, 1875 and named after the Gorgon Medusa, a snake-haired monster in Greek mythology.

When it was discovered, Medusa was by far the smallest asteroid found (although this was not known at that time). Since then, many thousands of smaller asteroids have been found. It was also the closest asteroid to the Sun discovered up to that point, beating the long-held record of 8 Flora. It remained the closest asteroid to the Sun until 433 Eros and 434 Hungaria were found in 1898, leading to the discovery of two new families of asteroids inward from the 4:1 Kirkwood gap which forms the boundary of the main belt.

It has also a rather long rotation period of 26 hours.

Info from and more available at Wikipedia and here.

Location tweaked using Google Aerials.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

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Decryption Key

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(letter above equals below, and vice versa)


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