Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Alex Hope

From: sd35.Ahope.bc.ca@youth.net
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 14:04:29 PST


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

School Name:     Alex Hope
School Location: Walnut Grove, Langley, Canada, British Columbia

Email Address:   sd35.Ahope.bc.ca
Experimenter:    Dani Walsh

Latitude         49.15
Longitude:       122.6
Distance to Equator: 39168.78 km

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 50.28
Calculated Earth circumference:   39168.78

Comments:
This is a very intersesting experiment. We did it in class. Its kind of cool how Eratosthenes did this experiment like a really long time ago. 


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