Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Death Valley Academy

From: mpmartin_at_mindspring.com
Date: Mon Mar 27 2006 - 08:42:13 PST


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

School Name:     Death Valley Academy
School Location: PoB 217 Shoshone CA 92384

Email Address:   mpmartin_at_mindspring.com
Experimenter:    Mr Martin's 8th Grade Algebra Class

Latitude         35:58:23N
Longitude:       116:16:13W
Distance to Equator: 2475 mi

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 36.9
Calculated Earth circumference:   24110.4 mi

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