Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/
School Name: Fayetteville Technical Community College
School Location: Fayetteville, NC
Email Address: mmachado_at_nc.rr.com
Experimenter: Michael Machado
Latitude 35.0672 N
Longitude: 78.9267 W
Distance to Equator: 3896km
Measured shadow angle in degrees: 35
Calculated Earth circumference: 40073.14km
Comments:
This is not bad for a first timer. I am only 2km off from the actual distance.
Received on Tue Mar 20 2012 - 10:49:41 PDT