Eratosthenes Experiment Report

From: <hansena_at_chsvb.org>
Date: Wed, 29 Sep 2010 06:43:55 -0700 (PDT)
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

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