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Doomsday 2012 Fact Sheet Doomsday 2012 Fact Sheet David Morrison Director, Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe NASA Senior Scientist There is widespread and unnecessary fear of doomsday on December 21, 2012. Some people worry about a Maya prophesy of the end of the world, others fear a variety of astronomical threats such as collision with a rogue planet. Opinion polls suggest that one in ten Americans worry about whether they will survive past Dec 21 of this year, and middle-school teachers everywhere report that many of their students are fearful of a coming apocalypse. Following are brief facts that address these doomsday fears. Mayan Calendar: The Maya calendar, attributable to global warming, but this has which is made up different cycles of day counts, nothing to do with a 2012 doomsday. Mayan Elder Tata Pedro Talks does not end this year. Rather, one cycle of Solar Outbursts: The Sun’s ongoing 144,000 days (394 years) ends and the next 11-year activity cycle is expected to peak in About December 21 2012 cycle begins. 2013, not 2012. Solar outbursts (flares and Mayan Prophecy: The ancient Maya CMEs) can damage orbiting satellites but will December 21 2012 has remained a mystery for did not predict the end of the world or any not hurt us on the surface. The strength of the many people, but not for Mayan Elder, Tata Pedro. disaster in December 2012. Such doomsday 2013 solar maximum is predicted to be lower His Mayan name is k'u'x'ya, which means ‘heart of predictions are a modern hoax. than average, not higher. the lake’. Tata Pedro is the head of the Council of Planet Nibiru: Nibiru is probably the Bunker Conspiracy: Accusations of a Mayan Elders and believes that in order to come minor name of a god found in ancient massive government cover-up are nonsense. No together as a global civilization, we must first Mesopotamian writing. There is no planet government could hide an incoming planet or come together as individual communities. In regard to December 21, 2012, Tata named Nibiru, and the fictional books by silence hundreds of thousands of scientists. Pedro stated, “People are saying the world is going economist Zecharia Sitchin about a civilization Rumors that huge bunkers have been built in the to end. People are getting sick just thinking about on this planet are a hoax. U.S. or elsewhere to shelter the elite are lies. it because they do not want to see the world end. Rogue Planet Headed for Earth: For Apparently a few people are building private What is going to happen is a change of time, a the past decade there have been reports of a shelters, but their fear of 2012 is misplaced and cycle of time. That is why people around the world rogue object (Planet X, or Nibiru, or they are wasting their money. are afraid. We will end a baktun in 2012. It is a big Hercubolus, or even Comet Elenin) that will Scaring Children: The group most change of the time.” collide with Earth in December 2012. These vulnerable to doomsday claims is children. “We have begun a search in 1999, 13 years claims are not true. If such a threatening world Teachers report that many of their students are searching and could be 2012 or 2013. It is existed, it would be one of the brightest objects frightened and some are even considering important to have people around that know peace in the sky, and astronomers would have been suicide. This is the most tragic consequence of and have more light, more illumination. There are tracking it for years. If it existed, its gravity the 2012 hoax. people inside the circle and this mission is to would be distorting the orbits of planets, The End of the World: The idea of the spread the word in those moments. If we don’t stop especially Mars and Earth. Astronomers know sudden end of the world by any cause is absurd. now to protect the planet and stop the pollution, that it does not exist. The Earth has been here for more than 4 billion there will be some destruction.” “The world will look the same but we will Planet Alignments: There is no years, and it will be several more billion years have more people with consciousness - for those alignment of planets in Dec 2012. There is an before the gradual brightening of the Sun makes that can see it. The changes of this planet are approximate lining up of the Earth and Sun and our planet unlivable. Meanwhile there is no gradual, not just from one day to another. If we the center of our Galaxy in late December, but known astronomical or geological threat that continue doing the ceremonies and opening the this happens every year. In any case, planet could destroy the Earth. portals and the gates, more people will know about alignments have no effect on the Earth. Cosmophobia: Many young people what is happening and maybe they will change just Pole Shift: There is nothing strange this write to me that they are scared of astronomy. because they want to change, not because they are year about either the magnetic poles or the When they read about some new discovery, the afraid of the destruction of the planet. They will rotational poles of the Earth. The magnetic first thing they think is that it might hurt them, change because they will see more people that are polarity changes every million years or so, but even if it is happening in a distant galaxy. There more loving, not just people that dance with death. that is not happening now, and it probably takes is no reason for such fears, which I call The energy will be more positive and those that thousands of years when it does happen. A cosmophobia (fear of the universe). This rash of want to come into this envelope of peace and love, sudden change in the rotational axis has never concern seems to be the result of too many are welcome. Those that don't want to come in, happened and is not possible. If there were any conspiracy theories and sensational stories they will be out. Now we are receiving the change in the Earth’s rotation, it would be featured on the Internet and irresponsible news messages for 2012 that we have to change, that we instantly apparent by failure of our GPS outlets. Astronomical objects are so distant that have to open our hearts, that we have to be more conscious. The changes are now, in this moment.” systems. they cannot threaten the Earth. Please don't be “It will not be the end of the world. The Increasing Disasters. Our planet is afraid of the Sun or the planets or comets or energy now is very strong. There is much strange behaving normally in 2012, although we see asteroids. The universe is not your enemy. [] weather. The rays of the sun are changing the more and more news stories about natural weather. This is the energy that we are feeling now, disasters. There has been no increase in The ‘X’ Zone 2012 these changes in our planet, radical changes in the earthquakes or volcanic eruptions. There has weather. We must find a equilibrium with the sun been an increase in extreme weather, including 26 Hour Live Broadcast and the planet and stop polluting because the rays both droughts and floods, which are partly www.xzone2012.com can give us life or death.”