Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/
School Name: Maktab Teknik Sultan Saiful Rijal
School Location: Spg 125, Jln Muara, Bandar Seri Begawan BB2313, Brunei Darussalam
Email Address: takahashi_brunei_at_yahoo.com
Experimenter: MTSSR Team 1: Descendant of Einstein (ND/CTN/31) (Siti Nurdiyana bt Hj Matussin, Dk Siti Zafirah bt Pg Md Jefri, Ak Md Rafie b Pg Hj Md Yussof, Rafizul b Pitur, and Md Farid Hanis Ghassani Al-Muizz b Hj Marali)
Latitude 4 55' 30" N
Longitude: 114 55' 40" E
Distance to Equator: 450 km
Measured shadow angle in degrees: 4
Calculated Earth circumference: 40500 km
Comments:
This team used a map to find the distance to the equator.
Received on Wed Sep 29 2010 - 19:22:04 PDT