From: luisa.muda_at_istitutotirinnanzi.it
Date: Wed Sep 24 2008 - 23:47:35 PDT
Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/ School Name: Liceo scientifico "T. Tirinnanzi" School Location: Legnano (Milan), Italy Email Address: luisa.muda_at_istitutotirinnanzi.it Experimenter: Prof. Luisa Muda Latitude 45 35'7.33" N Longitude: 8 53'56.73" E Distance to Equator: 5.044,35 Km Measured shadow angle in degrees: 45,5 Calculated Earth circumference: 39.911 Km Comments: The experiment has been very interesting. We are very happy about our results because they are accurate: we couldn't imagine but we were pretty sure to get it. We are enclosing some pictures taken during the experiment. (Class 1 A: Riccardo, Paolo F., Andrea, Alberto, Giacomo, Luca, Claudio, Roberto, Paolo R., Anna Maria, Alice, Noemi, Federica, Lucia, Anna, Irene)