Eratosthenes Experiment Report

From: sneakycem_at_hotmail.com
Date: Tue Apr 03 2007 - 00:24:32 PDT


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

School Name:     Coombabah HS
School Location: Coombabah State High School, Gold Coast ,QLD , Australia

Email Address:   sneakycem_at_hotmail.com
Experimenter:    Cem Ozturk

Latitude         111.13
Longitude:       13.23
Distance to Equator: 3,022.7

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 27.2
Calculated Earth circumference:   39,990.321

Comments:
I got really close but it was a fun school experiment.


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