Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Marblehead High School

From: dereka324_at_yahoo.com
Date: Tue Mar 29 2005 - 10:53:31 PST


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

School Name:     Marblehead High School
School Location: 2 Humphrey St.
Marblehead, Ma  01945

Email Address:   dereka324_at_yahoo.com
Experimenter:    Derek Abbott

Latitude         N42.5
Longitude:       W71
Distance to Equator: 2932.5 miles

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 42.5
Calculated Earth circumference:   24839.845 miles

Comments:
It was a lot of fun!


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