Eratosthenes Experiment Report: Coal Ridge High School

From: gymmonkey101_at_hotmail.com
Date: Wed Sep 27 2006 - 08:00:20 PDT

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

School Name:     Coal Ridge High School
School Location: New Castle, Colorado

Email Address:   gymmonkey101_at_hotmail.com
Experimenter:    Tyler Reece, Leanna Harju, Amy Allmon, Sophia Vidal

Latitude         39.33.01 N
Longitude:       107.36.35 W
Distance to Equator: 4390.08086

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 38.34
Calculated Earth circumference:   41221.41653

Comments:
We didn't get to do our experiment on the equinox, so we did it three days afterword, which threw our answer off quite a bit.

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