Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Brockport High School

From: dhowlett@bcs1.org
Date: Thu Sep 25 2003 - 07:10:36 PDT

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Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/

School Name:     Brockport High School
School Location: Brockport, NY

Email Address:   dhowlett@bcs1.org
Experimenter:    Matt Ritzel

Latitude         43.21N
Longitude:       77.94W
Distance to Equator: 4801.93km

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 45
Calculated Earth circumference:   38415.42

Comments:
We did the experiment on the 24th due to overcast sky.

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