From: sd35.Ahope.bc.ca@youth.net
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 14:02:05 PST
Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/ School Name: Alex Hope School Location: Langley, British Columbia, Canada Email Address: sd35.Ahope.bc.ca Experimenter: Sheena Walper Latitude 49.15 Longitude: 122.6 Distance to Equator: 5470.6 Measured shadow angle in degrees: 50.28 Calculated Earth circumference: 39168.78 Comments: This is a very interesting experiment we did in class. Which Eratoshenes did years ago. Which is amazing because he did not have the tools to help him with this experiment as we do today.