From: luisa.muda_at_istitutotirinnanzi.it
Date: Wed Sep 24 2008 - 23:50:40 PDT
Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/ School Name: Liceo Scientifico "Ti Tirinnanzi" School Location: Legnano (Milan),Italy Email Address: luisa.muda_at_istitutotirinnanzi.it Experimenter: Prof.Luisa Muda Latitude 45 30'7.33'' N Longitude: 8 53'56.73''E Distance to Equator: 5044,35 Km Measured shadow angle in degrees: 45,5 Calculated Earth circumference: 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 1A:(Riccardo,Paolo.F,Andrea,Alberto,Giacomo,Luca,Claudio,Roberto,Paolo.R,Irene,Anna.O, Lucia,Federica,Noemi,Alice e Anna Maria).