Eratosthenes Experiment Report

From: Jason_Guptill_at_Catawba.k12.nc.us
Date: Mon Sep 24 2007 - 06:17:08 PDT


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

School Name:     H.M. Arndt Middle School
School Location: Hickory, NC.

Email Address:   Jason_Guptill_at_Catawba.k12.nc.us
Experimenter:    Crawdad Team

Latitude         35' 46.501
Longitude:       81' 16.023
Distance to Equator: 2450

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 35
Calculated Earth circumference:   25200

Comments:
We had Fun with this!


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