In what year the Mayan's calendar predicts the end of the world, and what do they mean by that? Did the Yucatan penisula really got hit by a meteor thousand of years ago ?
2007-10-26 05:51:52 · 7 answers · asked by Salt Lake 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Astronomy & Space
The Maya calendar ends on Dec. 21, 2012, but I don't think there are any Mayan carvings saying this would be the end of the world.
The Yucatan penisula is believed to be where the asteroid that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs 65 million years struck.
2007-10-26 06:01:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
The Mayan Calendar ends in 2012 and a lot of people have taken that to mean the end of the World. But there's no real evidence for it.
Yes, the meteor that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago struck the Yucatan. Geologists have found the remains of a huge impact crater (several hundred miles across) and I understand that there's also an interesting spot in the Indian Ocean that 'bulges' in the way you'd expect from such an event.
Doug
2007-10-26 13:04:31 · answer #2 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Maya do not predict the end of the world - their calendar merely runs out in December 2012. Mine runs out at the end of this year, but I am not expecting the world to end.
The Yucatan peninsula was impacted by what Gene Shoemaker believed to be a comet, rather than a meteor or asteroid around 65 million years ago - with the impact crater being centred on the little village of Chicxulub. It is speculated that this impact was responsible for the extinction of the dinosaurs and many other species of animals and plants.
2007-10-26 14:14:15 · answer #3 · answered by the_lipsiot 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Mayan calendar does not predict the end of the world.
2007-10-26 14:25:06 · answer #4 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
12/21/2012 is the official "end" to the Mayan calendar.
The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the Maya civilization, completes its thirteenth b'ak'tun cycle since the calendar's mythical starting point
The Long Count b'ak'tun date of this starting point (13.0.0.0.0) is repeated, for the first time in a span of approximately 5,125 solar years. The significance of this period-ending to the pre-Columbian Maya themselves is unclear. It is conjectured that this may represent in the Maya belief system a transition from the current Creation world into the next.
2007-10-26 13:05:31 · answer #5 · answered by Brian K² 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The Mayan calendar claims that in 2012, the "world" as we now know it will end. It doesn't actually claim that all life(human) will cease to exist, just that a major "event" will happen that will change humanity... or... the way that we live... or... something else of that magnitude......
2007-10-26 13:02:39 · answer #6 · answered by graciouswolfe 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Civilization AS WE KNOW IT will end. Human existance won't.
The huge cities filled with people who are sucking the earth dry----taking and taking and taking, but never putting back----Those will end.
A smaller number of humans who have hopefully learned their lesson will still exist, hopefully living in harmony with the earth again.
2007-10-26 13:15:05 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋