Eratosthenes Experiment Report: St. Thomas More School

From: rlevine_at_e-stthomasmore.org
Date: Wed Sep 22 2004 - 10:48:50 PDT


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

School Name:     St. Thomas More School
School Location: Elgin, IL

Email Address:   rlevine_at_e-stthomasmore.org
Experimenter:    7th grade Class

Latitude         42 deg 02m N
Longitude:       88 deg 19m W
Distance to Equator: 2915

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 48.5
Calculated Earth circumference:   21630 Miles

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