Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/
School Name: Bishop Sullivan Catholic High School
School Location: Virginia Beach, Virginia
Email Address: hansena_at_chsvb.org
Experimenter: Mrs. Hansen's Oceanography Class
Latitude 36.809845
Longitude: -76.133313
Distance to Equator: 4093km
Measured shadow angle in degrees: 38
Calculated Earth circumference: 38,775.8km
Comments:
This was our first year participating in this experiment. Our percent error ran from 3.2%-18%.
Received on Wed Sep 29 2010 - 06:43:57 PDT