Experiment Report for the Eratosthenes Project on http://youth.net/
School Name: Bennett Middle School
School Location: 200 East College Avenue Salisbury,MD
Email Address: ajdyess99_at_yahoo.com
Experimenter: Kaitlyn K, Courtney S, AJ Dyess
Latitude 38.37 N
Longitude: 75.59 W
Distance to Equator: 4264
Measured shadow angle in degrees: 32
Calculated Earth circumference: 47,970
Comments:
We did not do the experiment at exact solar noon so we believe that our calculations for the circumference may not be correct. Also pie is awesome and should be worshipped! Hi from Kaitlyn.
Received on Mon Sep 24 2012 - 10:50:12 PDT