Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Worthington Christian HS

From: cdbeitman_at_wideopenwest.com
Date: Thu Mar 24 2005 - 19:53:11 PST

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

School Name:     Worthington Christian HS
School Location: Worthington, OH

Email Address:   cdbeitman_at_wideopenwest.com
Experimenter:    Cynthia Beitman

Latitude         40.06
Longitude:       83.0
Distance to Equator: 2760

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 39.8
Calculated Earth circumference:   24,961 miles

Comments:
Had a number of cloudy days that narrowed the window of opportunity to make the measurement.

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