Eratosthenes Experiment Report

From: <ihyunryu_at_naver.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:25:05 -0700 (PDT)
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

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