From: triciakiss@telus.net
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 13:56:08 PST
Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/ School Name: Alex Hope Elementary School Location: Walnut Grove - Langley, B.C., Canada Email Address: triciakiss@telus.net Experimenter: Emma Konrad, Tricia Kiss, Katie Loftus, Jordan Channin, Landon Epp, Mme. Raffiai Latitude 49.15 Longitude: 122.6 Distance to Equator: 5470.5 km Measured shadow angle in degrees: 50.3 Calculated Earth circumference: 39168.78 Comments: I think its amazing that Eratosthenes was able to do, with simple resources (approxiamately) 2000 years ago, what we do with machines today.