Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/
School Name: Howell High School
School Location: 405 Squankum Yellowbrook Rd. Farmingdale, N.J. 07727
Email Address: stwidle_at_frhsd.com
Experimenter: Mrs. Susan Twidle
Latitude 40.2
Longitude: 74.1
Distance to Equator: 4662 km
Measured shadow angle in degrees: 40
Calculated Earth circumference: 41958 km
Comments:
We also repeated the experiment at non-noon times, here are our results: 8:45 a.m. 27 692.3 km 10:40 a.m. 34 062.7 km 1:115 p.m. 47 952 km
Received on Thu Sep 24 2009 - 14:00:07 PDT