From: lemony101@shaw.ca
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 13:54:30 PST
Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/ School Name: Alex Hope Elementary School Location: Walnut Grove, Langley, British Columbia, Canada Email Address: lemony101@shaw.ca Experimenter: Emily Senff, Sheena Walper, Dani Walsh (S. Raffiai) Latitude 49.15 Longitude: 122.6 Distance to Equator: 5470.5km Measured shadow angle in degrees: 50.3 Calculated Earth circumference: 39168.78 km Comments: It was amazing how Eratosthenes did this problem without any technology or anything to help him.