Eratosthenes Experiment Report

From: keith.endsley_at_hcps.org
Date: Tue Sep 23 2008 - 11:02:54 PDT

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

School Name:     Fallston High School
School Location: Fallston, MD USA 

Email Address:   keith.endsley_at_hcps.org
Experimenter:    Keith Endsley 

Latitude         39.52194N
Longitude:       -76.411W
Distance to Equator: 4390.4km

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 39.007
Calculated Earth circumference:   40,528 km

Comments:
My students really enjoyed this experiment. 

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