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° 07.HIJ W 118° 12.KLM where the missing digits can be found by solving a Solar System Quiz:
Voyager 2 flew by Uranus in 198(A)
(B) is the number of decades (rounded off) that Uranus takes to orbit the Sun
Including Uranus, (C) is the number of "ice giant" planets in our Solar System
(D) is the number of times larger Uranus is in diameter than the Earth
(E) is the number of major (large) moons orbiting Uranus
For his discovery of Uranus, Herschel was rewarded by King George (F)
H=B+F-C I=C+D+F J=C+E K=F L=D+F M=C
In keeping with the theme of the Lab, the cache is located at the scale distance from the Sun of planet Uranus. The Sun is located at Paseo Colorado in Old Town Pasadena. The cache is log only.
Uranus was discovered in 1781 by William Herschel and was the first planet discovered in the era of telescopic astronomy, although Uranus is barely visible to the naked eye. Its axis of rotation is titled 98 degrees from perpendicular to its orbital plane and it is orbited by a set of dark rings and icy moons. It was explored by the NASA Voyager 2 spacecraft, and has no known solid surface. Its mass is 14.5 times that of the Earth. At this model scale, Uranus would be about the size of a softball 4 inches in diameter.
