Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Alex Hope

From: triciakiss@telus.net
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 13:59:21 PST


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

School Name:     Alex Hope
School Location: Walnut Grove Langley BC Canada

Email Address:   triciakiss@telus.net
Experimenter:    Tricia Kiss, Emma Konrad, Katie Loftus, Landon Epp, Jordan, Chanin, 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:
It is so cool that he could mesure the world with so little information on the world and write a book  about it.


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