GC71FXY Traditional Cache Trappist-1
Type: Traditional | Size: Small Small | Difficulty: 2 out of 5 | Terrain: 1.5 out of 5
By: proteus75 @ | Hide Date: 03/03/2017 | Status: Available
Country: United States | State: Colorado
Coordinates: N39° 33.785 W104° 59.085 | Last updated: 08/30/2019 | Fav points: 0
Dogs  Access or parking fee  Recommended for kids  Takes less than an hour  Available at all times  Parking available  Stealth required 

This is the 7th in a new series based on nearby stars. Easily accessible from the road or the PEAK Athletics car park.

 

TRAPPIST-1, is an ultra-cool dwarf star, slightly larger than the planet Jupiter, located 39.5 light years from the Sun in the constellation Aquarius. The dwarf star has been shown to host seven temperate terrestrial planets, a larger number than detected in any other planetary system.

Astronomers first discovered three Earth-sized planets orbiting the dwarf star in 2015. A team led by Michaël Gillon at the University of Liège in Belgium detected the planets using transit photometry with the Transiting Planets and Planetesimals Small Telescope (TRAPPIST) at the La Silla Observatory in Chile. On 22 February 2017, astronomers announced four additional exoplanets around TRAPPIST-1. This work used the NASA Spitzer Space Telescope and the Very Large Telescope at Paranal, among others, and brought the total number of planets to seven, of which three are considered to be within its habitable zone; conceivably, the others also could be habitable as they may possess liquid water somewhere on their surface.

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10 Logs: Found it 9  Didn't find it 1  

Found it 05/23/2019 By Treasure_Squirrel11
Slick Rick

Found it 05/01/2019 By Rockets08
Got it easily. I've found a lot of these recently so when I spotted the cache it was an immediate find. TFTC!

- Find #245!

Found it 12/25/2018 By EasternGirls
Great hide. TFTC

Found it 12/22/2018 By Jaynedavicsin
Found it at night while some girl was screaming at her boyfriend as he was pulling away, tftc!

Found it 11/18/2018 By Rasha95
Thanks

Found it 08/21/2018 By 4CANE
Took us a bit.

Didn't find it 06/10/2018 By Biggears
We were in a rush. Picked up a lot of trash though!

Found it 05/10/2018 By aspivey78
Nice cami

Found it 04/27/2018 By 20BradyS
Great hide! I was looking for about 15 minutes! TFTC

Found it 04/23/2018 By Intermediatelogic
Very well hidden