Eratosthenes Experiment Report

From: <sjh6146_at_mail.nycischool.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 05:07:55 -0700 (PDT)
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

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