From: school.distric.35@youth.net
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 14:12:23 PST
Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/ School Name: Akex Hope School Location: Walnut Grove Langley B.C. Canada Email Address: school distric 35 Experimenter: Mindy Sara Roberet Ryan Lauren Latitude 49.15 Longitude: 122.6 Distance to Equator: 5470.5 km Measured shadow angle in degrees: 50.3 Calculated Earth circumference: 39 168.78 km Comments: i think that Eratosthenes is very very intellegent because he found that out. He did alot of work to find out the distance of the earth, Now that he found the distance of the earth that helps many people in many ways, for an example traveling wich is much much easier for peple now that they know the distance around the earth.