Eratosthenes Experiment Report

From: <slatenk_at_uncw.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2011 10:24:41 -0700 (PDT)
Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/

School Name:     UNC Wilmington
School Location: Wilmington, NC

Email Address:   slatenk_at_uncw.edu
Experimenter:    Kevin, Chad, Emily, Crystal, Andy, Ben, Claire, Gina, Kelli

Latitude         34.23 N
Longitude:       -77.87 W
Distance to Equator: 2383 miles

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 37
Calculated Earth circumference:   23176.21622 miles

Comments:
Great fun! Experiment conducted by History of Math students.
Received on Fri Sep 23 2011 - 10:24:41 PDT

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