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5.5 -90 ::8=0-B C#C C E= Nibiru and Doomsday Earth? Could it cause a pole shift, and if so on Earth. They could endanger astronauts in deep space or on the Moon, and this is what could we expect? 2012: Questions and something that NASA must learn to deal with, Answers There is no planet alignment in 2012 or any but it is not a problem for you or me. Large other time in the next several years. In fact, in outbursts can interrupt radio transmission, cause late 2012 the planets are scattered all over the bright displays of the aurora (Northern and Continued from Page 10 sky! As to the Earth being in the center of the Southern Lights), and damage the electronics of Milky Way, I don’t know what this phrase some satellites in space. Today many satellites 9. Why does the Mayan calendar say the means. If you are referring to the Milky Way are designed to protect against this possibility, world will end in 2012? I have heard that Galaxy, we are rather far toward the edge of this for example by switching off some of their more they have been pretty accurate in the past spiral galaxy, some 30,000 light years from the delicate circuits and going into a “safe” mode with other planetary predictions. How can center. We circle the galactic center in a period for a few hours. In extreme cases solar activity you be sure you know more than they did? of 225-250 million years, always keeping can also disrupt electrical transmissions on the approximately the same distance. Concerning a ground, possibly leading to electrical blackouts, Calendars exist for keeping track of the passage pole shift, I also don’t know what this means. If but this is rare. of time, not for predicting the future. The it means some sudden change in the position of The last solar maximum occurred in Mayan astronomers were clever, and they the rotation axis of the Earth, then that is 2001, but the subsequent solar minimum was developed a very complex calendar. Ancient impossible, as noted in the answer to Question unusual, with a period of a couple of years with calendars are interesting to historians, but they 10. What many websites do discuss is the almost no sunspots or other solar activity. cannot match the ability we have today to keep alignment of the Earth and Sun with the center Scientists now guess that the next maximum track of time, or the precision of the calendars of the Milky Way in the constellation of will in 2013 not 2012. However, the details of currently in use. The main point, however, is Sagittarius. This happens every December, with the solar cycle remain basically unpredictable. that calendars, whether contemporary or no bad consequences, and there is no reason to You are correct that the Earth’s magnetic ancient, cannot predict the future of our planet expect 2012 to be different from any other year. field protects us by creating a large region in or warn of things to happen on a specific date space, called the Earth’s magnetosphere, within such as 2012. To further complicate matters, 12. When the Sun and the Earth line up on which most of the material ejected from the Sun scholars do not agree on when the Mayan the galactic plane at the same time with the is captured or deflected, but there is no reason to calendar long-count turns over. There is no black hole being in the center couldn’t that expect a reversal of magnetic polarity any time agreed-upon synchronization between the cause something to happen, due to the fact soon. These magnetic reversals happen only Mayan calendar and ours, which was imported that the black hole has such a strong once in 400,000 years on average. much later from Europe. This supposedly key gravitational pull. date in the Mayan calendar may have already 14. I am confused about a report on the Fox happened, or it may lie decades in the future. There is a giant black hole in the center of our News website that in 2012 a “Powerful Solar Milky Way galaxy, and like any concentration Storm Could Shut Down U.S. for Months”. 10. What is the polar shift theory? Is it true of mass it exerts gravitational force on the rest They referred to a report from the National that the Earth’s crust does a 180-degree of the Galaxy. However, the galactic center is Academy of Sciences. If nothing is going to rotation around the core in a matter of days very far away, approximately 30,000 light happen as a result of the event in 2012, why if not hours? Does this have something to do years, so it has negligible effects on the solar would allow such nonsense to be reported? to do with our solar system dipping beneath system or the Earth. There are no special forces the galactic equator? from the galactic plane or the galactic center. NASA requested this study of heliophysics by The only important force that acts on the Earth the National Research Council. It had nothing to A reversal in the rotation of Earth is impossible. is the gravitation of the Sun and Moon. As far as do with 2012. As you note, this report includes It has never happened and never will. There are the influence of the galactic plane, there is a worst-case analysis of what could happen if slow movements of the continents (for example nothing special about this location. The last time there were a repetition of the biggest solar storm Antarctica was near the equator hundreds of the Earth was in the galactic plane was several ever recorded (in 1859). The problem is the way millions of years ago), but that is irrelevant to million years ago. Claims that we are about to such information can be used out of context. claims of reversal of the rotational poles. cross the galactic plane are untrue. There is no reason to expect such a large solar However, many of the disaster websites pull a There is a widespread misunderstanding storm in the near future, certainly not in 2012 bait-and-shift to fool people. They claim a about the gravitational influence of another specifically. Your reference to “the event in relationship between the rotation and the object on the Earth or other planets, whether it 2012” illustrates this problem. There is no magnetic polarity of Earth, which does change is a distant black hole or a nearby rogue planet. prediction of an “event in 2012”. We don’t even irregularly with a magnetic reversal taking place One sees claims often that some object, like expect the next solar maximum will take place every 400,000 years on average. As far as we Nibiru or Comet Elenin, will cause a pole shift in that year. The whole 2012 disaster scenario is know, such a magnetic reversal doesn’t cause or trigger earthquakes, but that is not the way it a hoax, partly fueled by the Hollywood science- any harm to life on Earth. A magnetic reversal is works. The only effect of an external fiction disaster film “2012”, in which the Earth unlikely to happen in the next few millennia, gravitational pull is to change the orbits of is nearly destroyed as the result of some sort of anyway. But they falsely claim that a magnetic planets. If there were a massive intruder like undefined solar outburst. I hope that most reversal is coming in 2012 and that this is the Nibiru, it would be altering the orbits of the people are able to distinguish Hollywood film same as, or will trigger, a reversal of rotational Earth and other planets, something astronomers plots from reality. And as a matter of interest, poles. The bottom line is: (a) Rotation direction would measure immediately. What it won’t do the film “2012” was conceived and written and magnetic polarity are not related. (b) There is shift the rotational pole or cause earthquakes without any reference to the 2012 date. The is no reason to expect a reversal of magnetic or other geological events. name was added later to take advantage of polarity any time soon, or to anticipate any bad growing public concern about this year. effects on life when it does eventually happen. 13. I have heard that the Earth’s magnetic © A sudden shift in rotational pole with field will flip in 2012 just when the strongest (Continued on Page 12) disastrous consequences is impossible. Also, level of solar storms in history is predicted to none of this has anything to do with the galactic take place. Will this kill us or destroy our The ‘X’ Zone equator or any of the other nonsense about civilization? New Year’s Eve Special alignments that appears on many of the with conspiracy theory websites. Near solar maximum (which happens every 11 Rob McConnell years approximately), there are many more 9 pm Dec 31 2012 to 1 am Jan 1 2013 11. When most of the planets align in 2012 sunspots, solar flares and coronal mass ejections Listen and Watch and planet Earth is in the center of the Milky than near solar minimum. Flares and mass www.xzoneradiotv.com Way, what will the effects of this be on planet ejections are no danger for humans or other life