Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Trinity Lutheran School

From: lwdry@aol.com
Date: Thu Sep 25 2003 - 08:29:14 PDT

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

School Name:     Trinity Lutheran School
School Location:  1100 Philadelphia Rd. Joppa, Md 21085

Email Address:   lwdry@aol.com
Experimenter:    Mrs. Dry's 6th Grade Earth Science

Latitude         39 N
Longitude:       79 W
Distance to Equator: 2691 miles

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 45
Calculated Earth circumference:   21528miles/34444.8km

Comments:
It was storming badly the morning of our experiment. It had stopped raining by noon but was still slightly cloudly. 

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