Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Marblehead High School

From: chicadetassi_at_yahoo.com
Date: Tue Mar 29 2005 - 10:57:42 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:   chicadetassi_at_yahoo.com
Experimenter:    Katharine Feeley

Latitude         42 30' 14.7"
Longitude:       70 51' 49.6"
Distance to Equator: 2932.5 miles

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 39.1
Calculated Earth circumference:   24849.9 miles

Comments:
Good project!


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