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november2009_june_july_2009.qxd 23/11/2009 4:37 PM Page 14 14 NASA & 2012 14 NASA & 2012 2012: Beginning of the basis for these claims. If Nibiru or Planet X WHAT PEOPLE ARE 2012: Beginning of the WHAT PEOPLE ARE End or Why the World were real and headed for an encounter with the TELLING US ABOUT 2012 End or Why the World TELLING US ABOUT 2012 Earth in 2012, astronomers would have been Won't End? tracking it for at least the past decade, and it rjs0009 - Just like the Y2k scare, there is Won't End? would be visible by now to the naked eye. Obviously, it does not exist. Eris is real, but it is enough information behind this and enough by N A S A a dwarf planet similar to Pluto that will remain ways to manipulate that information to where by N A S A in the outer solar system; the closest it can come people will undoubtedly take advantage of it for to Earth is about 4 billion miles. their own personal gains. There's really no way Remember the Y2K scare? It came and went without much of a whimper because of Q: What is the polar shift theory? Is it true that to be certain what is going to happen, so the adequate planning and analysis of the situation. the earth’s crust does a 180-degree rotation best thing you can do is find out as much about Impressive movie special effects aside, Dec. 21, around the core in a matter of days if not hours? the various predictions around the world and 2012, won't be the end of the world as we know. their credibility and decide for yourself what It will, however, be another winter solstice. A: A reversal in the rotation of Earth is you think is going to happen. I personally don't impossible. There are slow movements of the Much like Y2K, 2012 has been analyzed continents (for example Antarctica was near the think the world is going to end, but then again, and the science of the end of the Earth equator hundreds of millions of years ago), but I could be wrong. thoroughly studied. Contrary to some of the that is irrelevant to claims of reversal of the common beliefs out there, the science behind michelle19982 - I'm interested in what the end of the world quickly unravels when rotational poles. However, many of the disaster everyone is saying on this topic, weather it be websites pull a bait-and-shift to fool people. pinned down to the 2012 timeline. Below, They claim a relationship between the rotation science, spiritual, religious or just someone's NASA Scientists answer several questions that and the magnetic polarity of Earth, which does opinion from their experience of life and the we're frequently asked regarding 2012. fear it provokes in all which is why a point of change irregularly, with a magnetic reversal view has been expressed! but that is all it is a taking place every 400,000 years on average. As point of view, an opinion as their is no real fact Question (Q): Are there any threats to the Earth far as we know, such a magnetic reversal in 2012? Many Internet websites say the world doesn’t cause any harm to life on Earth. A to anything anyone has said, yes we can read will end in December 2012. magnetic reversal is very unlikely to happen in history books and prophecies but the real truth Answer (A): Nothing bad will happen to the the next few millennia, anyway. I believe is still unknown as history is also Earth in 2012. Our planet has been getting along written from a point of view and can be just fine for more than 4 billion years, and Q: Is the Earth in danger of being hit by a perceived in different ways depending on who credible scientists worldwide know of no threat meteor in 2012? is studying it or wrote it, the same goes for associated with 2012. prophecies, what a prophet predicted centuries A: The Earth has always been subject to ago and depending on who translated it, as impacts by comets and asteroids, although big language, education and culture has changed Q: What is the origin of the prediction that the world will end in 2012? hits are very rare. The last big impact was 65 which also depends on a single persons life million years ago, and that led to the extinction A: The story started with claims that Nibiru, a of the dinosaurs. Today NASA astronomers are experience and knowledge. I'm an open minded supposed planet discovered by the Sumerians, is carrying out a survey called the Spaceguard person and believe anything is possible which headed toward Earth. This catastrophe was Survey to find any large near-Earth asteroids is why this topic interests me as nothing is initially predicted for May 2003, but when certain, anything could or not happen, if nothing happened the doomsday date was long before they hit. We have already something does happen then I will be sure to determined that there are no threatening moved forward to December 2012. Then these asteroids as large as the one that killed the write about it which again will be witnessed two fables were linked to the end of one of the dinosaurs. All this work is done openly with the from my point of view if I am alive to see cycles in the ancient Mayan calendar at the discoveries posted every day on the NASA anything worth writing about and i think it is winter solstice in 2012 -- hence the predicted important to remember that we live in the doomsday date of December 21, 2012. NEO Program Office website, so you can see present but we should also think about the for yourself that nothing is predicted to hit in future though I do not have children but 2012. hopefully I will one day and I will want them to Q: Does the Mayan calendar end in December 2012? Q: How do NASA scientists feel about claims have learnt by my/our mistakes as I am aware A: Just as the calendar you have on your kitchen of my repeating patterns that could harm my wall does not cease to exist after December 31, of pending doomsday? future family, by taking sole responsibility for A: For any claims of disaster or dramatic the Mayan calendar does not cease to exist on changes in 2012, where is the science? Where is my actions and making a conscious effort to December 21, 2012. This date is the end of the the evidence? There is none, and for all the change them for the better is all I can do today, Mayan long-count period but then -- just as your fictional assertions, whether they are made in can you? calendar begins again on January 1 -- another long-count period begins for the Mayan books, movies, documentaries or over the Baronvonrassilon - Didn't we go through this Internet, we cannot change that simple fact. calendar. nonsense a few years back called Y2K?? There is no credible evidence for any of the Remember, computers failing, end of world, assertions made in support of unusual events blah blah blah. End of the world has been Q: Could a phenomena occur where planets taking place in December 2012. align in a way that impacts Earth? predicted for centuries and nothing has happed. A: There are no planetary alignments in the next Q: Is there a danger from giant solar storms Get a life people. few decades, Earth will not cross the galactic predicted for 2012? plane in 2012, and even if these alignments A: Solar activity has a regular cycle, with peaks Ditismijnspamm - 2012, year where the solar were to occur, their effects on the Earth would approximately every 11 years. Near these high (flares) will occur, + the possibility of the be negligible. Each December the Earth and sun long overdue polarity swap of the magnetic align with the approximate center of the Milky activity peaks, solar flares can cause some field = UV bombardment. First time it's even interruption of satellite communications, Way Galaxy but that is an annual event of no although engineers are learning how to build worth looking into to see if it's even true , or consequence. possible for that matter. Ah well, people are to electronics that are protected against most solar ignorant to see the universe as an infinite cycle storms. But there is no special risk associated maybe , maybe we deserve the mayans reset Q: Is there a planet or brown dwarf called Nibiru or Planet X or Eris that is approaching with 2012. The next solar maximum will occur button , untill we get it just right. in the 2012-2014 time frame and is predicted to the Earth and threatening our planet with be an average solar cycle, no different than widespread destruction? previous cycles throughout history. Sens us YOUR comments to: A: Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an Internet hoax. There is no factual xzone@xzoneradio.com Thank You NASA! []