Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/
School Name: Saetbyeol Middle School
School Location: Seongnam, South Korea
Email Address: ihyunryu_at_naver.com
Experimenter: Ryu Ihyun
Latitude 37 26N
Longitude: 127 07E
Distance to Equator: 4164km
Measured shadow angle in degrees: 37
Calculated Earth circumference: 40514km
Comments:
It was a little bit cloudy at the time of the meridian time. Therefore, I'm not sure that the exact mesurement of the angle was made. I want some other's comments.
Received on Wed Mar 25 2009 - 21:25:24 PDT