From: hirchd_at_waterloo.k12.ia.us
Date: Wed Sep 29 2004 - 06:58:42 PDT
Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/ School Name: Waterloo East High School Location: Waterloo, Iowa Email Address: hirchd_at_waterloo.k12.ia.us Experimenter: Shawn Thompson, Thane Soderstrom, Josh Mauldinauldin Latitude 42 , 33 n Longitude: 92 , 24 w Distance to Equator: 4980 Measured shadow angle in degrees: 42 Calculated Earth circumference: 42,685 Comments: this was fun.