Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/
School Name: NYC iSchool
School Location: 131 Avenues of the Americas New York, New York, 10023
Email Address: sjh6146_at_mail.nycischool.org
Experimenter: Joshua Healy
Latitude 40
Longitude: 74
Distance to Equator: 4,497.0264km
Measured shadow angle in degrees: 39.4
Calculated Earth circumference: 41,071.4
Comments:
This experiment was actually two days (I think) after when it should have been done, so we wouldn't be able to get the exact circumference.
Received on Fri Sep 24 2010 - 05:07:56 PDT