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CT Solar System: Uranus Traditional Cache

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CTReviewer: Archived at CO's request.

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Hidden : 4/2/2005
Difficulty:
2 out of 5
Terrain:
1.5 out of 5

Size: Size:   regular (regular)

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Geocache Description:

This cache is part of the "CT Solar System" series of caches, each representing a planet's distance from the Sun, were the Sun located at the NY/CT State line and the Solar System scaled to the width of Connecticut.


The cache is located in Parker Memorial Park which is open to the general public, however parking is for residents only between Memorial Day and Labor Day. If you continue down the road there is limited public parking available. The park is open from sun rise to sunset and has extended hours in the summer until 10:00 p.m.. You will be looking for a small lock and lock with only a log sheet and pencil. Stealth is a major requirement, the park gets lots of use in the summer. Please replace as found or better.

The cache contains some Space related items for the first several finders and also some usual cache trinkets.

Uranus is the seventh planet from the Sun and is the third largest in the solar system. It has an equatorial diameter of 51,800 kilometers (32,190 miles) and orbits the Sun once every 84.01 Earth years. It has a mean distance from the Sun of 2.87 billion kilometers (1.78 billion miles). The length of a day on Uranus is 17 hours 14 minutes. Uranus has at least 22 moons. The two largest moons, Titania and Oberon, were discovered by William Herschel in 1787.

Methane in the upper atmosphere absorbs red light, giving Uranus its blue-green color. Uranus' rings are distinctly different from those at Jupiter and Saturn. The outermost epsilon ring is composed mostly of ice boulders several feet across. A very tenuous distribution of fine dust also seems to be spread throughout the ring system.

Uranus is 20 times the distance Earth is from the Sun or double Saturn's distance. We'll drive half an hour in our model to get there from Saturn.
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Additional Hints (Decrypt)

Onfr bs yrqtr

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)