WATER
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us, so it's going to be fun."
Maltz said the water flow decreased
at about 3:05 p.m., when EWEB ar
rived, but that even at a slower pace,
the water was still flowing strong.
"I'm a little worried about the
cars; it looks like there's going to be
damage to them," Maltz said.
Karen Pavelec — an employee of
the Maude Kerns Art Center, located
at East 15th Avenue and Villard
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her car and discovered the torrent of
water rushing down the street in
front of the building.
"We have river-front property now;
so we have Maude Kerns Art Center
on the river," Pavelec said.
As of 5 p.m. EWEB crews were still
working to repair the broken pipe,
and as of press time no estimates of
the projected damage from the
flooding were available.
Steven R. Neuman is a freelance
reporter for the Emerald.
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NEWS BRIEF
Astronomical Society to
gather for meteor shower
Coming soon to a Northwest sky
near you: the annual Perseid meteor
shower, which will produce 40 to 60
meteors an hour for stargazers.
The Eugene Astronomical Society
plans a nighttime gathering Friday to
watch the spectacle.
Meteor showers, or shooting stars,
are bits of meteor debris, in this case
the Swift-Tuttle comet, which orbits
the sun on a 130-year cycle.
Earth passes through the orbit of
comet debris once a year. At that
time meteoroids — the technical
term for space dust — burn as they
hit our planet's atmosphere.
The shower is named because the
meteors seem to come from that par
ticular constellation in the northeast
corner of the sky. It runs from late July
through late August.
This year, NASA scientists say a rela
tively new filament of dust, which
blew off the comet more than 140
years ago, will drift across the Earth's
orbit sometime Wednesday.
The resulting surge of meteoroids
will be most visible over Europe and
Asia, as many as 200 per hour.
Sky-watchers in the Northwest
won't be so lucky, but there still
should be plenty to see.
A new moon means the night sky
will be quite dark this week, making
it easier to see shooting stars.
And Jupiter's 12-year orbit has
also brought it into contact with the
meteoroids.
"It throws the dust around a little,"
he said, which can mean more bits
of rock and ice hitting our atmos
phere, said Tracy Stephensen, the Eu
gene society's board president.
The highest meteor concentration
can be seen late Wednesday night and
early Thursday morning, he said.
Stephensen says stargazers should
find a dark place on the outskirts
of town.
He said he plans to spend at least
one night this week in a boat on Fern
Ridge Lake, where city lights won't in
terfere with the view.
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