Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Marblehead High School

From: linny1218_at_yahoo.com
Date: Tue Mar 29 2005 - 10:57:51 PST


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

School Name:     Marblehead High School
School Location: Marblehead, Massachusetts
2 Humphrey Street

Email Address:   linny1218_at_yahoo.com
Experimenter:    Lindsey Sahagian

Latitude         N 42 30 14.7
Longitude:       W 70 50 49.6
Distance to Equator: 2932.5 miles

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 41.5
Calculated Earth circumference:   24840.01 miles

Comments:
I enjoyed this experiment


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