Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Belmont Elementary

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Date: Mon Sep 27 2004 - 14:21:46 PDT


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

School Name:     Belmont Elementary
School Location: Langley, BC, Canada

Email Address:   (none)
Experimenter:    Alex Day

Latitude         49? 04' N
Longitude:       122? 39'
Distance to Equator: 5461.590 km

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 60?
Calculated Earth circumference:   32769.54 km.

Comments:
I realized how big the earth is and it doesn't take a rocket scientist or a lawyer to figure out the earth's circumference. (Sorry if I can't spell it, we learned it in french! LOL!) The project was fun and entertaining because of our super-fun teacher, Mr. Buchin. :-) !@#$%^&*() :-) When we started the project, the clouds were coming in and out and we were getting mad at the wind!


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