What will be the effects of the grand alignment predicted by the Mayan calender in Dec 2012?

Question

The mayan calender ends on the winter soltice on dec 2012.There is evidence to support a grand alighnment of the sun,earth,and the center of the galaxy.Has this happened before?If so what were the effects?What are the predictions for this event?

Answer 1

So far, the best answer is Nick's.

:-)

Actually, the Mayan calendar does NOT predict an alignment.

What should have happened, had the Mayans estimated the precession cycle correctly (they missed by a few years), is that the Winter Solstice position of the Sun would be the closest it can be to the Galactic centre. Still, it is not an alignment since it misses by over 5.5 degrees (this is a lot in astronomy: 11 times the diameter of the Full Moon).

This happens every 25,800 years (The Mayans had estimated 25,627 years -- not bad considering they had no telescopes).

Over the last few years, this "alignment" occurs twice a year (once with the Earth on the side "away" from the Galactic centre -- winter -- and once with the Earth between the Sun and the Galactic centre). This includes the years where the alignment is in fact ever so slightly better than in 2012 (because of the Mayans' error in the estimation).

So far, nothing has happened (except, perhaps, for a slight increase in the number of times we get a question about 2012).

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The Mayans have left us some astronomical predictions that are clearly dated for after 2012 (with dates written in the style of their calendar): clearly they, themselves, did not think that their calendar would end.

Answer 2

IF some archaeologists (for example, Michael Coe) are right, our date of December 21, 2012, corresponds with a round figure in one Mayan calendar (the one we call the Mesoamerican Long Count calendar). Many other archaeologists think that the round figure date does not fall on Dec. 21, 2012. If we use the correspondence described above, the Mayan calendar goes like this. 19 Dec. 2012 = day number 00.12.19.19.17.18 20 Dec. 2012 = day number 00.12.19.19.17.19 21 Dec. 2012 = day number 00.13.00.00.00.00** 22 Dec. 2012 = day number 00.13.00.00.00.01 23 Dec. 2012 = day number 00.13.00.00.00.02 and so on, with the next round figure in the Spring of the year we call 2407 ** Those who believed that the Mayan calendar announced a New Age, are using 00.12.19.19.17.19 01.13.00.00.00.00 01.13.00.00.00.01 But most real experts think that the extra 01 at the start only happens when the next number (the one that changes from 12 to 13) passes from 19 to 00 (which would follow the real mathematical logic or the Mayans who used a base-20 counting system). The one thing that everyone agrees on (including the real Mayans -- who still exist) is that the calendar does NOT end. The lie (that the calendar ends) was invented in 1987 for a book written by José Argüelles, who had also claimed to be a reincarnated Mayan god (not bad for a kid born in Minnesota). If at age 20, you are terrified by such fake "predictions", then prepare yourself for a scary life. There is already another end of the world (just as fake) "predicted" for May 19, 2013 (it is a re-run of the end of the world of May 27, 2012). The Big 2012 Hoax (Dec. 21, 2012) is a rerun of the Planet-X hoax (we have already died in May 2003). Not to be confused with the recent end of the world of December 12, 2012 (a rerun of the September 9, 2009 end of the world, itself a rerun of the June 6, 2006 end of the world). Apparently, you have also survived the end of the world of October 21, 2011, a "rain-check" date for the end of the world of May 21, 2011, a re-run of the September 6, 1994 end of the world. If only you had known in advance about these other ends of the world, you could have enjoyed more scariness...

Answer 3

The "grand alignment" won't happen, since the Earth and sun will not align with the galactic centre (our orbit isn't right for that to appear to happen).
And "alignments" of several planets have happened in the past (several times) and since the planets in our solar system don't affect Earth at all (the distance is too great) the most an alignment of several planets can do is create a minor disturbance in the sun's magnetic field. This could cause some increased auroral activity and possibly some increased electromagnetic disturbances in the upper atmosphere.

But because the planets orbit the sun at some amount of inclination to the sun's plane (the ecliptic) any alignment is never a perfect line - the planets can be as much as 20 degrees apart.

By the way, the 2005 book "Beyond 2012: Catastrophe or Ecstasy" by Geoff Stray reviews several theories, prophecies and predictions concerning 2012 and finds authors have used faulty information or have bent the truth to fit their theories.

Answer 4

well for one, thats not what the grand alignment is. the grand alignment happens every 20 years and its when all the planets are in the same general area, almost a line.

and think about what your saying. an alignment like the one u talk about happens every year. the sun and the center of the galaxy are always lined up. the earth orbits the sun once a year. so once every year the sun, earth, and center of the galaxy would be lined up. nothing to special about that.

and the mayan calendar does not end. it starts a new "count". thats just how their calendar is organized. its no different than going from 2007 to 2008. just cuz the year changed doesnt mean the world will end.

no special alignments of planets or anything would harm earth at all. its impossible really. this whole 2012 thing is blow way out of proportion, nothing at all will happen.

Answer 5

The Mayan calendar doesn't end. One cycle of the Mayan calendar, a calendar which is very complex, ends and begins again on that day, just as ours does each year.

There is no alignment coming, because the ecliptic along which the planets travel is not in the same plane as the Milky Way. Even were it to happen, I don't see what's so grand about a small star and one of it's circling rocks 93 million miles away "aligning" with the gravitational centre of the galaxy which is 30,000 light years distant. We're always here, gravitationally bound to it. I don't see why being in a certain orientation is going to make a difference.

Answer 6

The Earth, Sun and center of the galaxy line up the same way every year. The center of the galaxy is seen in the direction of Sagittarius, and whenever you see the Sun in Sagittarius, then the Earth and Sun are lined up with the center of the galaxy. The Sun Is seen in each of the 12 Zodiac constellations for one month every year. It is seen in Sagittarius for one month every year. There is nothing special about it.

Oh, and by the way, 6 months later the Sun is seen 180 degrees away from Sagittarius, so if you were on the Sun you would see Earth in Sagittarius and the three would be lined up again, but with Earth in the middle instead of the Sun being in the middle. This also happens once every year.

So there is nothing special going on.

Answer 7

Alignments/conjunctions happen all the time. We don't know where the center of the galaxy is. We still don't know for sure if the Harmonic Convergence in 1987 or the winter solstice in 2012 was the end of the Mayan Calendar. Nothing ever happens except in how it focuses people's values.

Answer 8

What will be the effects of the grand alignment predicted by the Mayan calender in Dec 2012?

None

Has this happened before?

Probably

what were the effects?

None

What are the predictions for this event?

Anything that you want to make up!

Answer 9

many people are under the false influance that planets ''align''

the orbits of all the planets are not like a disc going round the sun, but go in all different directions, like abouve the sun

also people think they are perfect circle shaped. this also isnt true

they almost all of them are oval shaped, going at different speeds.

the likely hood of them all alighning all at once is about 1000000000000000000000000000:1

dont worry, and if it does happen, we cant do anything.

dont you think the millatary and government would be warning and preparing for this so called event? dont worry come what may

Answer 10

This is 2007 and we are having 2 out of every 15 questions on tis topic. Why don't you search back before posting similar question.