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Total Students

2,609

Total Launches

683

Eggs Survived

418 61.2%

Rockets Survived

536 78.5%

Just for Hopi Hawks Fifth Graders

Hopi Rocketry Challenge

Welcome to the Hopi Rocketry Challenge web site! This web site is dedicated to rocketry activities at Hopi Elementary School, Ingleside Middle School, and Arcadia High School. You will also find lots of information about model rocketry, astronomy, and NASA. Each month there will be a new original article related to the exploration of space courtesy of the scientists at NASA. So enjoy our adventures in rocketry, and let us know what you think of our activities and web site!

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Discover the cosmos!

Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. .

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Explore the solar system

Neptune—the eighth and most distant major planet orbiting our Sun—is dark, cold and whipped by supersonic winds. It was the first planet located through mathematical calculations.

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Space Place Articles

Musical Satellites

If light were sound, then chemicals would play chords. Water: C major. Cyanide: A minor. Chlorophyll: G diminished 7th. (Please note that the choice of chords here is only for the sake of illustration, and not meant to reflect the actual spectra of these chemicals.)

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