Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Richford Jr-Sr High School

From: dmacdonald_at_rhs.richford.k12.vt.us
Date: Fri Sep 30 2005 - 09:06:18 PDT

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

School Name:     Richford Jr-Sr High School
School Location: 1 Corliss Heights, Richford, VT 05476

Email Address:   dmacdonald_at_rhs.richford.k12.vt.us
Experimenter:    Doug Mac Donald

Latitude         44 59'41"N
Longitude:       72 40'12"W
Distance to Equator: 5000.40

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 45.60
Calculated Earth circumference:   39477

Comments:
The sun shone on Richford, VT for only about 10 minutes on Thurs, Sept 22 but luckily those 10 minutes were at noon.

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