Tropic of Capricorn Traditional Geocache
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Because of the tilt of 23'27.30 of the earth's axis of rotation to its orbital path. The tropic of Capricorn is the southernmost latitude at which the sun reaches the zenith. This happens only once each year on the summer solstice (about 22nd December) Capricornus was, in Roman Mythology the sea goat into which Pan was changed to escape from the terrible giant Typhon. It is also the name given to the constellation resembling it and when the December solstice was first observed the sun was situated in this constellation, hence this tropic was named Capricorn.
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