Exploring Uranus Mystery Cache
Heather Feather: Too much muggling at this location. Until a new, suitable place is found, it sleeps.
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Cache is not at the posted coordinates. Solve the puzzle below to reveal the final coordinates of this Mystery Cache.
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Let’s take a trip into the big, black abyss (of knowledge!) and learn a bit more about one of the mysterious, unfortunately-named planets in our solar system: Uranus!
According to NASA at the time of this publication, there are A planets in our solar system. Uranus is the B th planet.
A = ___ / 2
B = ___ - 6
William Herschel discovered Uranus on March C, 1781. What he was doing looking there, no one knows.
C = ___ - 7
An Earth day is D hours. A Uranus day is E hours. It sure could take a long time to explore Uranus...
D = ___ * 0
E = ___ - 12.24
It takes Uranus about F Earth years to make one rotation around the sun. Good thing Uranus likes to hang out in the dark!
F = ___ / 42
The only spacecraft that has visited Uranus is Voyager G. That happened in the year H. ...what a voyage that must have been!
G = ___ - 2
H = ___ - 1978
Uranus has I moons. (Earth only has J moon). It's fitting that Uranus is so moony, eh?
I = ___ / 4.5
J = ___ + 7
Congrats, you've dug deep and learned a lot about Uranus! Finally, fill in the corresponding letters below to solve the puzzle and reveal the final coordinates of this mysterious cache!
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You can check your answers for this puzzle on GeoChecker.com.
(This cache is a re-creation of GC6CFPG, which I originally made for HQ's April Fool's 2016).
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
Chmmyr: Ybbx vagb Henahf. Yvxr, qb fbzr erfrnepu gb svaq gur vasbezngvba sbe gur chmmyr.
Pbagnvare: Va naq hc ba Irypeb. Cyrnfr ercynpr ba Irypeb! Vgrzf unir n unovg bs qvfnccrnevat ng guvf ybpngvba.
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