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Solar System - Neptune Traditional Cache

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Robmc: The time has come to retire the 2023 Rutherglen Mega Caches.
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Hidden : 4/17/2022
Difficulty:
1.5 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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The Solar System

This is a small series that displays the distances the planets are from the sun on a scale of one meter to a million kilometers.
So every meter you walk is a million kilometers.
Rutherglen's Bottle represents the sun on this scale. Except that it should be about 1.4 meters in diameter not 9 meters.

There is a traditional cache for each planet (even Pluto gets a guernsey!)
When you reach Pluto you have traveled 5.9 billion kilometers.

Enjoy the walk (bike ride, or most likely 4WD).

The Planet


Nepture is a cold distant gas giant. Through a telescope it is bluer than Uranus because it has more methane.

Giant storms whirl through its atmosphere with the fastest winds recorded in the Solar System, up to 2,400km/hr. One storm, nearly as large as Earth, circles the planet every 18 hours.

In 1989 the Voyager 2 spacecraft discovered eleven small moons and a faint ring system.

Triton is the largest moon (2,700km in diameter) and the coldest moon in the Solar System. Geysers of nitrogen spew from its surface.

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

purfg uvtu

Decryption Key

A|B|C|D|E|F|G|H|I|J|K|L|M
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N|O|P|Q|R|S|T|U|V|W|X|Y|Z

(letter above equals below, and vice versa)