Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Richford Jr-Sr High School

From: dmacdonald@rhs.richford.k12.vt.us
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 11:13:47 PST

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

School Name:     Richford Jr-Sr High School
School Location: Richford, Vermont, USA

Email Address:   dmacdonald@rhs.richford.k12.vt.us
Experimenter:    Pre-Calculus class (instructor Doug Mac Donald)

Latitude         45.002 N
Longitude:       72.662 W
Distance to Equator: 5001.232 km

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 44.826
Calculated Earth circumference:   40165 km

Comments:
We did this on the only sunny day within your specified range of March 17 - 21; specifically at 11:59 EST (solar noon) on March 17, 2004.

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