Eratosthenes Experiment Report

From: bkhodor_at_schools.nyc.gov
Date: Tue Sep 23 2008 - 07:40:54 PDT


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

School Name:     Fort Hamilton High School
School Location: Brooklyn, New York

Email Address:   bkhodor_at_schools.nyc.gov
Experimenter:    Xavier bermeo, Jaqueline Pichis

Latitude         42.6N
Longitude:       77.3W
Distance to Equator: 4,732.86km

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 42.6
Calculated Earth circumference:   39,996km

Comments:
It was amazing!!!...We got locked outside of our school when we were finished.


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