Eratosthenes Experiment Report

From: <antonin.perbosc_at_laposte.net_at_ns.youth.net> Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:05:23 -0700 (PDT)

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

School Name:     Antonin Perbosc College
School Location: Lafrancaise FRANCE 

Email Address:   antonin.perbosc_at_laposte.net
Experimenter:    Eric Vayssie

Latitude         44 08' N
Longitude:       01 15' E
Distance to Equator: 4904 km

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 44 16'
Calculated Earth circumference:   39882 km

Comments:
44 16'=44.2667 Earth circumference = 360x4904/44.2667=39882km