From: luisa.muda_at_istitutotirinnanzi.it
Date: Wed Sep 24 2008 - 23:51:24 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 (Anna, Irene, Lucia, Noemi, Federica, Luca, Claudio, Roberto, Paolo F., Giacomo, Alberto, Riccardo, Paolo R., Andrea, Anna Maria, Alice)