Eratosthenes Experiment Report

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Date: Tue Sep 23 2008 - 12:43:06 PDT

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

School Name:     St. George's Independent School
School Location: Collierville, TN, USA

Email Address:   scloud_at_sgis.org
Experimenter:    Sarah Cloud

Latitude         35.1262
Longitude:       -89.6700
Distance to Equator: 2432.73 mi

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 37.5
Calculated Earth circumference:   23,267.81 mi

Comments:
The students that participated in this experiment were a group of 18 eighth grade Geometry students. 

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