Can you explain to me what 2012 is and planet x is and how it will effect the earth if it happens?

Question

thanks!

Answer 1

i've never head of planet x but in 2012 there's gonna be a huge change in world order, it probably won't come to an end.

Answer 2

a cruel and cynical hoax. nothing will happen.

Answer 3

The Mayan Calendar - Their calendar was done in ages or cycles and their years ended at the winter solstice.  The current cycle ends December 21, 2012.  They didn’t predict the end of the world, it was only the end of that cycle.  Their civilization died out several hundred years before the end of the cycle, so no new cycle was added.

Alignment with the Galactic Center – The alignment was supposed to be in 1998.  We will be 6 degrees off from true alignment in 2012.  Because the sun is one-half of a degree wide, it will take the December solstice sun 36 years to precess through the Galactic equator This happens every 26,000 years. The Earth has been through it 173,076 times and humans 7 times.  

Polar shift – the poles are moving all the time and we don’t notice.  A complete 180 degree reversal occurs over a period of thousands of years.  The north magnetic pole was first discovered in 1831 and when it was revisited in 1904, explorers found that the pole had moved 31 miles.  The north magnetic field shifted significantly in the last thousand years. It has generally migrated between northern Canada and Siberia, but it sometimes moved in other directions, too.



Niburu (Planet X) - It doesn't exist. The Doomsayers predicted that it was to hit Earth in 2003. When it didn't happen, they just moved it out to 2012 to coincide with the end of the Mayan calendar.

Apophis (2004MN4) – A yellow alert for this asteroid (for the 2029 pass) was originally issued in 2001.  After more points were added to its orbit, they found it wasn't going to hit us and the alert was canceled.

Paul Chodas / NASA / JPL

Donald Yeomans, manager of the Near Earth Object Program

Jean Meeus, Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, 1997

Answer 4

According to some, the day of the December solstice in 2012, is supposed to mark the start of a "new age" (an astrology type of thing).

The Long Count calendar used by Mayan astronomers (and astronomers from other old Meso-American cultures) arrives at the end of a Long Count, and begins a new one.  This had been planned to coincide with the position of the solstice being in the thickest portion of the Milky Way (Mayan astronomers, just like the Classical Greek Astronomers and Chinese Astronomers of 2000 years ago, were aware of the precession of Earth's spin axis).

Our culture finds this weird because:

1- we use the Spring Equinox to mark our new ages, and

2- we use a base-10 numbering scheme, while the Mayans used a mix of base-18 and base-20.

Therefore, very few people understand the Mayan Long Count calendar system and are easily fooled when people tell them that the calendar "comes to an end" (it does not) or that the calendar predicts some dreadful event (it can't, it is simply a day-count calendar).

As one of the numerous lies that have been invented to boast the Big 2012 Hoax Off, planet x (sometimes confused with another fictitious planet called Nibiru) is supposed to come to our corner of the solar system and play havoc with our planet.  Depending which lie you pick, this planet will either change our spin axis, reverse our magnetic polarity, hide the Sun, steal our gold or... (the list keeps growing).

Since the planet x involved in the Big 2012 Hoax Off is totally fictitious, then it cannot have any physical effect on Earth.  But apparently it has lots of psychological effects on those who decide to believe.  I do hope some of it can be treated with proper medication.

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There has always been something called "planet x" in real astronomy.  It is a label used by astronomers for things not yet found or not yet identified. For example, when the first exoplanets were found (around other stars), they were called "planet x" (and sometimes planet y and planet z) until they could be confirmed -- then they'd be given a proper designation -- or shown not to exist.

In our solar system, when astronomers thought that Neptune's orbit was disturbed by another planet further out, they started a search for "Planet X"  a planet that was shown through mathematical formulas but had not been seen in a telescope yet.

The search culminated with the discovery of Pluto.

However, rapidly we found that Pluto was way too small to be Planet X.  Today, the search continues for Planet X, well outside Pluto's orbit.  The "real" Planet X would be in a stable orbit, much further from the Sun than Pluto is.  Therefore it certainly cannot have any effect on Earth.

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Answer 5

no the world's not going to end in 2012.

The mayan calender isn't the end of the world. It's a start of a new era..kind of like how our calender resets in december....

And that planet thing doesn't exist. No planet is going to knock the earth out of orbit..

don't use google to research "2012", you'll end up at alot of kook new age websites

Answer 6

Wrong forum .. please repost to Myths & Legends

or perhaps Religion ..

or maybe even Jokes & Riddles :-) ...

Answer 7

2012 is the end of the Mayan calendar. However, If they were so good at predicting things, how come they didnt see the end of thier civilization? I doubt anything special will happen in 2012, which would be earth shattering or beyond what would happen any other year. There are many unfounded urban legends about this date, dont listen to them.

I dont know exactly when they stopped looking for planet x, but it refered to the possible planet in our solar system beyond pluto. Its has since been detemined that it doesnt exist.

Niribu comes from ancient sumeria and refers to the planet Saturn.

Answer 8

i dont know what planet x is other than a hoax

but 2012 was the end of the Mayan calender and the date when we will align with the galactic center and nothing more not a doomsday date

Answer 9

Scientists don't expect anything out of the ordinary to happen in the year 2012, or specifically on the date December 21, other than the solstice, which happens every year.

None of the "predicted" happenings for 2012 hold up under close scrutiny. "Planet X" and "Nibiru" simply don't exist. The Mayan calendar ends a cycle, but there were no predictions of the end of the world. The Sun doesn't line up with the galactic centre; it's 6 degrees off. No asteroids or comets are actually predicted to hit Earth.

All of this stuff was put together by sensationalists in order to promote their books and TV shows, and shamelessly promoted by the History Channel. Don't take any of it seriously!

Answer 10

You don't need to know this as its a well known HOAX. Nothing will happen, except Christmas, Chinese New Year and the Muslim ending of the fasting period.