Eratosthenes Experiment Report

From: <onealc4604_at_student.faytechcc.edu>
Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2012 04:58:30 -0700 (PDT)
Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/

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

Email Address:   onealc4604_at_student.faytechcc.edu
Experimenter:    Clint E. Oneal

Latitude         35.0672N
Longitude:       78.9267w
Distance to Equator: 1283km

Measured shadow angle in degrees: 35
Calculated Earth circumference:   40.073km

Comments:
Its amazing how they could do the math back then. Clint Oneal.
Received on Wed Mar 21 2012 - 04:58:30 PDT

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