Orbiting the Planet - Venus Traditional Cache
Orbiting the Planet - Venus
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Orbiting the Planet - Venus 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). Venus is the second planet from the Sun, orbiting every 224.7 Earth days. It has the longest rotation period of any planet in the Solar System, taking over 116 earth days for one Venusian day. It also rotates in the opposite direction to most other planets. It does not have any natural satellites. Venus is 12104km in diameter, 95% the size of earth and .9% the size of the Sun. It has an incredibly thick atmosphere that is the result of a runaway greenhouse gas situation. Temperatures on Venus can average 462 degrees Celsius, higher than Mercury due to the heat retention properties of its atmosphere of 96% Carbon Dioxide. At the scale of the Planet Hollywood dome representing our Sun, Mercury would only be 21 cm in diameter and it would lie 1.87 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 Earth GC7W2GG Mars GC7W0QJ Jupiter GC7WP1A Saturn GC7W0QY Uranus GC7W0R6 Neptune GC7W0R8
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Pnpurf ner nyy va fgenvtugsbejneq naq nyzbfg boivbhf ybpngvbaf.
Guvax lryybj vs lbh arrq n uvag.