Eratosthenes Experiment Report

From: <stwidle_at_frhsd.com>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:00:06 -0700 (PDT)
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

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