Eratosthenes Experiment Report

From: <hcarr_at_londonderry.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2009 08:30:27 -0700 (PDT)
Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/

School Name:     North Londonderry Elementary School
School Location: North Londonderry, NH

Email Address:   hcarr_at_londonderry.org
Experimenter:    Mrs. Carr's 5th grade math class

Latitude         42.5505 N
Longitude:       071.2358 W
Distance to Equator: 4680.81km

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 42
Calculated Earth circumference:   40121.22857km  24930.257mi

Comments:
We enjoyed doing this experiment!
Received on Mon Mar 30 2009 - 08:30:36 PDT

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