From: luisa.muda_at_istitutotirinnanzi.it
Date: Wed Sep 24 2008 - 23:51:22 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: 5044,35 km Measured shadow angle in degrees: 45,5 Calculated Earth circumference: 39911 km Comments: the experiment has been very interesting. we are very happy about the 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 1A (Federica,Andrea,Paolo F.,Riccardo,Roberto,Paolo R., Giacomo, Alberto,Luca, Claudio, Noemi,Irene,Lucia,Annamaria, Anna, Alice