From: jencole66_at_yahoo.com
Date: Mon Sep 29 2008 - 22:25:16 PDT
Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/ School Name: FISH Homeschool Co-op School Location: Kadena Air Base Okinawa Japan Email Address: jencole66_at_yahoo.com Experimenter: Jennifer Cole Latitude 26 deg 20 sec Longitude: 127 deg 46 sec Distance to Equator: 2933.1 Km Measured shadow angle in degrees: 27 deg Calculated Earth circumference: 39,108 Km Comments: All we had available to perform our experiment was a 2 foot wooden stake, twine, and a 4 inch protractor. Given the rudimentary tools we used, I was pretty impressed with the results!