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Majestic Stallions Dance Their Way into Audience's Hearts OLD MILL CREEK, Ill., May 16, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- After a hiatus in 2011 to focus on training, Tempel Farms is launching a series of performances featuring its famous Lipizzan Stallions. The season kicks off on Saturday, June 9, with its new Evening Toast and Performance and a matinee program on Sunday, June 24. All shows take place at Tempel Farms in Old Mill Creek, Ill., where the rare Tempel Lipizzan...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. "” The surface of comet Tempel 1, hit by a NASA space probe during a spectacular July 4 experiment, bears evidence of impact craters, suggesting that the comet has collided with asteroids or other space travelers in its journeys around the Sun.Several dozen circular features that appear to be impact craters, ranging from 40 to 400 meters across, were spotted on Tempel 1 during the Deep Impact mission, according to first results from the mission team published by Science and...

By Deborah ZabarenkoWASHINGTON (Reuters) - Comet Tempel 1, the target of NASA's Deep Impact probe, turns out to be quite fragile, with no more substance than a snowbank, scientists said on Tuesday."The comet is mostly empty, mostly porous," said Michael A'Hearn, a comet specialist at the University of Maryland. "Probably all the way in, there is no bulk ice. The ice is all in the form of tiny grains."The material on the comet's surface, down to a depth of several dozen...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. "” When comet Tempel 1 collides with a NASA space probe in the early morning hours of July 4, 2005, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory expect some holiday sizzle "“ a brilliant flash and a dramatic spray of debris.This cosmic collision will create a crater exposing Tempel 1's interior. Like all comets, Tempel 1 consists of the frozen remains of material that formed the solar system. But what, precisely, is this stuff? How is it put together? Peter Schultz, crater...