Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Marblehead High School

From: jth3467_at_yahoo.com
Date: Tue Mar 29 2005 - 10:55:43 PST


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

School Name:     Marblehead High School
School Location: 2 Humphrey Street
Marblehead MA, 01945

Email Address:   jth3467_at_yahoo.com
Experimenter:    John Homan

Latitude         42 30' 14.7"
Longitude:       70 50' 49.6"
Distance to Equator: 2932.5 mi

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 41
Calculated Earth circumference:   25000 mi

Comments:
This experiment was AWESOME, I loved it

Radius of Earth= 3955.77


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