This is a mini series of caches that extend the exploration of the Solar System started with the Pasadena Solar System Adventure Lab and AL bonus cache (GC93RG8). Since the five stops of the Adventure Lab only visited the planets known to the ancient world, this extended series takes you to the rest of the Solar System! The actual cache location is N 34° 08.HIJ W 118° 09.KLM where the missing digits can be found by solving a Solar System Quiz:
As the first discovered asteroid, Ceres is designated asteroid number 1. What are the numbers of these asteroids?
A = Hebe B = Flora C = Pallas D = Vesta E = Astraea F = Juno
H=D I=D+E J=A+C-B K=E-D L=C+F M=F-C
Fun Fact Bonus Question (not required to find the cache): What is the name of Asteroid number AJKJ ?
In keeping with the theme of the Lab, the cache is located at the scale distance from the Sun of dwarf planet Ceres. The Sun is located at Paseo Colorado in Old Town Pasadena. The cache is log only.
Ceres was discovered in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi and is the largest object in the asteroid belt region between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter. It was explored in 2015 by the NASA Dawn spacecraft, and revealed to be a world of rock and ice and formerly had a subsurface ocean of briny water that has left brilliantly reflective salt deposits on its surface in some places. At this model scale, tiny Ceres would be about the size of a sesame seed 2 mm across. Ceres takes 4.61 years to complete an orbit of the Sun.
