Orbiting the Planet - Uranus Traditional Cache
Orbiting the Planet - Uranus
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Orbiting the Planet - Uranus
This series of caches is an attempt at showing the scale of our solar system. The Sun, or Sol, is the centre of our known system, and all bodies within orbit it, from the planets, asteroids, comets to the hundreds of dwarf planets. The Sun is MASSIVE, with a diameter of 1.39 million kilometres!
The dome of the defunct Planet Hollywood restaurant in Niagara Falls, Canada will represent the Sun. The Planet Hollywood dome is approximately 24m. Using this scale caches have been placed at appropriate distances away to represent the distance from the Sun. The Planet Hollywood dome/Sun is at 43.093046 and -79.070791 (right near the Rainbow Bridge).
Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System. Uranus is similar in composition to Neptune, and both have different bulk chemical composition from that of the larger gas giants Jupiter and Saturn. For this reason, scientists often classify Uranus and Neptune as "ice giants" to distinguish them from the gas giants. Uranus's atmosphere is similar to Jupiter's and Saturn's in its primary composition of hydrogen and helium, but it contains more "ices" such as water, ammonia, and methane, along with traces of other hydrocarbons. It is the coldest planetary atmosphere in the Solar System, with a minimum temperature of 49 K and has a complex, layered cloud structure with water thought to make up the lowest clouds and methane the uppermost layer of clouds. The interior of Uranus is mainly composed of ices and rock.
At the scale of the Planet Hollywood dome representing our Sun, Uranus would be 0.88 m in diameter and lie 49.54 km from our Sun.
All caches are small plastic containers containing log sheets only. Please bring your own writing utensil.
Other caches in this series:
Mercury GC7W2GD
Venus GC7W0RH
Earth GC7W2GG
Mars GC7W0QJ
Saturn GC7W0QY
Jupiter GC7WP1A
Neptune GC7W0R8
Additional Hints
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