From: undisclosed
Date: Fri Sep 26 2003 - 08:40:14 PDT
Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/ School Name: Teenage Parent Center School Location: Kanas City, Missouri Email Address: undisclosed Experimenter: Ms. White's Earth Science Class Latitude 39.1N Longitude: 94.5W Distance to Equator: 4329km Measured shadow angle in degrees: 39deg 38min Calculated Earth circumference: 41,011.5 Comments: Our class calculated our information by measuring the sun's shawdow wit a meter stick and metric tape measure. We calculated the sun's altitude using tan=a/b