Eratosthenes Experiment Report

From: <wfink_at_westex.org>
Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 10:13:50 -0700 (PDT)
Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/

School Name:     West Essex Regional High School
School Location: North Caldwell, New Jersey

Email Address:   wfink_at_westex.org
Experimenter:    Wendy Fink's Astronomy class

Latitude         40deg 52'
Longitude:       74 deg 16'
Distance to Equator:  4549 km

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 39.5
Calculated Earth circumference:   41, 460 km

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