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Orion the Hunter LbNA #1453 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Scarab
Plant date:Oct 18, 2002
Location:
City:Washington
County:District of Columbia
State:District of Columbia
Boxes:1
Found by: fishouttawater
Last found:Aug 18, 2009
Status:FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF
Last edited:Oct 18, 2002
An urban microbox.
Log replaced 7/19/2004
Vandalized Spring 2005
Replaced 8/30/2005

Missing winter 2010

[Be ready to answer, "What am I doing? I thought I saw a beetle fly in here." Have you ever seen a jeweled scarab?]

The Einstein Memorial, Constitution Avenue NW at 22nd St. on the grounds of the National Academy of Sciences. Step up on to the black marble and look at Einstein. The tourists all climb on him and get their picture taken.

Brace yourself before you look down. You are standing in the middle of space. Below you are the stars of our sky. Just in front of you is the bronze disk of the sun. Far to your left, you will find the three stars in a row of Orion's belt. Very distinctive in the sky, no three stars line up quite like that, it is somewhat hard to find on this map. Rigel and Betelgeuse (often pronounced beetlejuice) are its two brightest stars. I am told that in the original Arabic Betelgeuse means "armpit of the hunter".

The hunter aims his bow at some dim hare but it looks more as if he is hunting the V shaped face of Taurus the bull. He will miss. His arrow will fly on and past the tight star cluster of the Pleides. You must follow it to reach your goal, on beyond the Sun and the crescent Moon, turn left after Delphinus and up the sidewalk 14 cracks to a cedar on your left. Velcroed to a small branch at eye level is the micro letterbox made of two film canisters taped together.

Don't forget the rubber band around the log.

Be discrete so that no tourist may see you and take or destroy it. Please replace it, carefully obscured by greenery.