Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Marblehead High School

From: JaninaAronhime_at_yahoo.com
Date: Wed Mar 30 2005 - 08:55:32 PST

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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:   JaninaAronhime_at_yahoo.com
Experimenter:    Janina Aronhime

Latitude         N 4230'14.7"
Longitude:       W 7050'49.6"
Distance to Equator: 2932.5 miles

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 41
Calculated Earth circumference:   24213.3 miles

Comments:
This was a life changing expirience. I don't know what lide would have been like if I didn't know what the distance to the earth's equator is!

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