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They're from PapUllo. our special collection of unique Blrkenrtock styles. 5th Street Public Market • Eugene • 342-6107 WORMS Continued from Page 1 sewage Industries that produce tons of organic, wastes daily can use worms to turn gartmge into a soil additive Hhawalker said he looks to a time when worm biotechnology will dispose of biodegradable waste and feed the world's hungry Mature is bountiful, it tan feet! everyone's needs, he said "Hut not everyone's greeds " flailed vermiculture. or vermicornposting, the process of using worms to convert garbage into a rich soil additive ran !»• used by anyone, sail) Jeff Cooper, w ho traveled from Southern Oregon to attend the workshop Cooper, sales director of a company that makes vermicomposting systems, said he recently sold a system for $100,000 to a client in Portland "It prtx ease* six to eight ton* of biodegradable waste daily," he said. Not every system needs to be so extravagant, though Edible f.itv Resource Center, which hosted Hhawalker with the City of Eugene offers plastic worm bins that can fit into the ba< k yard, or even a closet. Because the tot hnology is available and cost effective, and the raw material garbage is freely available, said Bhavvalker, now is o perfect time to get into vertnir.ulture But maybe not for long, he warned "In a levs years. 1 am sure the dictionary will define garbage as a valuable resourtre," CRASH Continued from Page 1 and their equipment toward the unusual cosmic event. Hothun and his assistants vol unteers who call themselves the Friend* of Pine Mountain Obser vatory will lie < ondut ting multi ple ohsers'ations of the impacts, whit h are (’spi-( ii-d in (ontinue lor sis days. |ulv 1<> Tl In addition to Pine Moun tain's optical telesi.ope. Hothun will he using a piece of equip ment known as a polarirneter to gauge the effect of the irnpat ts on Jupiter's magnetic field. "We have no idea what those effet ts are going to be." Bothun s.nd, "Hut there's no question that tt's going to olf«*ct it, much like a solar flare nffei ts the mag netic field of the Karth " Other oiiservatorie* around the world will also lie monitoring the event. Hothun said He will be in contact with many of these obser vatories through the Internet, a \as! computer network which will allow astronomers (and oth ers) to exi hnnge data, theories and even visual images con cerning the event. The Galileo spacecraft will have the hest view, at 150 mil lion miles from Jupiter, hut it has had met harm al problems, and any images it sends hack to Crash yields little visibility By David Thom Ongon Cmtxakl When the mountain-sired pieces of a shattered comet begin striking the gaseous mass of the planet Jupiter July 16. the collision will be the largest ever witnessed in the solar system. Hut don't expect to see much from your backyard. "There's going to l»e virtu ally no visual manifestation of these impacts," said Greg Hothun, an associate profes sor of physics and director of the University's Pine Moun tain Observatory, near Bend. The collisions will be tak ing place on the side of Jupiter that faces away from Earth, so very little of the event will be optically visible front Earth bound ottservalories, Hothun said Probably the most signifi cant visual evidence of the event if anything is visibly dis cernible from Earth at all will ho a slight Incrooso in th« luminosity of some of fupiter's 16 moons, os they reflect the light of the explosion. "A satellite might uppear to get 10 to 20 percent brighter,*’ Bothun said. Binoculars or small tele scopes might l)e sufficient to view such on effect, Bothun said, hut the possibility of see ing anything with the naked eye from this distance is vir tually nil. Public Broadcasting plans a live television special using images received from the Hub ble Space Telescope and Inter views conducted with astronomers during the event. The special will be seen locally on KEPB, UHF chan nel 22 and cable channel 7, on a tape delay at 10:30 p.m.. July 20. Karth will take weeks to process The Hubble Space Telescope, whic h orbits the berth, will also Im> trained on Jupiter during the collisions Bothun was skeptical about the value of thts pictures Hubble might receive. "Hubble's been kind of ( oerced into doing a P R event here ... the scientific util ity of the observation is kind of questionable," SHELL Continued from Page 1 Incited (ho bomb. Birr said. I tie Army never used live shells in the Kugene area. Birr said, suggesting dial (he ordinance c ould have boon someone's wartime souvenir thol was dumped in the river. I ho Armv usually disposes of live ordinances, hut l>ec ause the bomb was underwater. Birr said the Navy team was called in. A diver for the Lane County Sheriffs Rescue Water and Searc h Team discovered the shell on June 12 during a routine training exercise in the area When divers returned to the area to mark the exact location of the bomb, they couldn't find it because the water was so murky. It took divers from both the sheriffs department and the Eugene Fire Water Rescue Team until Sunday to locate the shell again which sat about 10 feet underwater with many divers working extra hours to sean h, Hirr said. Navy divers arrived late Tuesday night and entered the water at fi the next morning. The bomb was out of the water by 8:30 a m. 1 he only other uise in which military ordinances were found was about two years ago when a man mistook spent nx ket casings found around the mud flats at the Fern Ridge Reservoir for live bombs. 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