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EWSS: Mercury Traditional Cache

Hidden : 10/25/2025
Difficulty:
1 out of 5
Terrain:
1 out of 5

Size: Size:   micro (micro)

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Geocache Description:


Repeating a fun series I did in Salt Lake City (and surrounding counties), this time basing the Sun at the clock tower in Riverfront Park. Eastern Washington Solar System  (EWSS) caches are places approximant the correct distance from the “Sun”, using the scale of 1 mile equals 1 Astronomical Unit, or the Mean Distance from the Sun to the Earth.

Mercury, the innermost planet of the solar system and the eighth in size and mass. Its closeness to the Sun and its smallness makes it the most elusive of the planets visible to the unaided eye. Because its rising or setting is always within about two hours of the Sun’s, it is never observable when the sky is fully dark.

Mean distance from the Sun 57,909,227 km/0.39 AU

You are looking for a nano, so please bring something to write with.

 

Sun: GC7B9R1

Planets already in Orbit

GCBEGEA EWSS Venus

GCBF2ZQ EWSS: Earth

GCFBEGE  EWSS Mars

GCBET5V EWSS Jupiter

GCBFAVZ EWSS: Pluto and the Kuiper Belt

GCBFATC EWSS: Heliopause and Voyager Departure

Additional Hints (Decrypt)

haqre pbire

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)