Eratosthenes Experiment Report

From: <Ecarwise5654_at_yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 09:53:25 -0700 (PDT)

Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/

School Name:     Fayetteville Technical Community College
School Location: Fayetteville, NC

Email Address:   Ecarwise5654_at_yahoo.com
Experimenter:    Ernest Carwise

Latitude         35.067345
Longitude:       108
Distance to Equator: 3897km

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 44
Calculated Earth circumference:   31877.5

Comments:
very cloudy when we conducted the experiment