Orbiting the Planet - Neptune Traditional Cache
Orbiting the Planet - Neptune
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Orbiting the Planet - Neptune
This series of caches is an attempt at showing the scale of our solar system. The Sun, or Sol, is the centre of our known system, and all bodies within orbit it, from the planets, asteroids, comets to the hundreds of dwarf planets. The Sun is MASSIVE, with a diameter of 1.39 million kilometres!
The dome of the defunct Planet Hollywood restaurant in Niagara Falls, Canada will represent the Sun. The Planet Hollywood dome is approximately 24m. Using this scale caches have been placed at appropriate distances away to represent the distance from the Sun. The Planet Hollywood dome/Sun is at 43.093046 and -79.070791 (right near the Rainbow Bridge).
Neptune is the eighth and farthest known planet from the Sun in the Solar System. In the Solar System, it is the fourth-largest planet by diameter, the third-most-massive planet, and the densest giant planet. Neptune is 17 times the mass of Earth and is slightly more massive than its near-twin Uranus, which is 15 times the mass of Earth and slightly larger than Neptune. Neptune orbits the Sun once every 164.8 years at an average distance of 30.1 AU (4.5 billion km). It is named after the Roman god of the sea and has the astronomical symbol ♆, a stylised version of the god Neptune's trident.
At the scale of the Planet Hollywood dome representing our Sun, Neptune would only be 85 cm in diameter and it lies over 77 km from our Sun in Niagara Falls. That's a long way away.
All caches are small plastic containers containing log sheets only. Please bring your own writing utensil.
Other caches in this series:
Mercury GC7W2GD
Venus GC7W0RH
Earth GC7W2GG
Mars GC7W0QJ
Jupiter GC7WP1A
Saturn GC7W0QY
Uranus GC7W0R6
Additional Hints
(Decrypt)
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