Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/
School Name: Bentworth Senior High School
School Location: Bentleyville, PA
Email Address: bfredericks_at_bentworth.k12.pa.us
Experimenter: Steven Durila
Latitude 40.125119 N
Longitude: 80.02093 W
Distance to Equator: 2757.91 miles
Measured shadow angle in degrees: 40.96
Calculated Earth circumference: 24239.44 miles
Comments:
We did not have a shadow on March 20. We waited until Monday, March 23 to take our measurements.
Received on Tue Mar 24 2009 - 09:52:43 PDT