End of the World - December 21, 2012.

Seven Reasons: 
Scientific experts from around the world are genuinely predicting that five years from now, all life on
Earth could well finish. Some are saying it'll be humans that set it off. Others believe that a natural
phenomenon will be the cause. And the religious folks are saying it'll be God himself who presses the
stop button... 
1. Mayan Calendar 
The first mob to predict 2012 as the end of the world were the Mayans, a bloodthirsty race that were
good at two things: 
Building highly accurate astrological equipment out of stone and Sacrificing Virgins.

Thousands of years ago they managed to calculate the length of the lunar moon as 29.53020
days, only 34 seconds out. The Mayan calendar predicts that the Earth will end on December 21,
2012. Given that they were pretty close to the mark with the lunar cycle, it's likely they've got the end
of the world right as well.

2. Sun Storms 
Solar experts from around the world monitoring the sun have made a startling discovery: our sun is in
a bit of strife. The energy output of the sun is, like most things in nature, cyclic, and it's supposed to
be in the middle of a period of relative stability. However, recent solar storms have been
bombarding the Earth with so much radiation energy, it's been knocking out power grids and
destroying satellites. This activity is predicted to get worse, and calculations suggest it'll reach its
deadly peak sometime in 2012

3. The Atom Smasher 

Scientists in Europe have been building the world's largest particle accelerator. Basically its a
27km tunnel designed to smash atoms together to find out what makes the Universe tick.
However, the mega-gadget has caused serious concern, with some scientists suggesting that
it's properly even a bad idea to turn it on in the first place. They're predicting all manner of deadly
results, including mini black holes. So when this machine is fired up for its first serious experiment in
2012, the world could be crushed into a super-dense blob the size of a basketball.

4. The Bible says... 

If having scientists warning us about the end of the world isn't bad enough,religious folks are getting in
on the act aswell. Interpretations of the Christian Bible reveal that the date for Armageddon, the final
battle between Good an Evil, has been set down for 2012. The I Ching, also known as the Chinese
book of Changes, says the same thing, as do various sections of the Hindu teachings.

5. Super Volcano 
Yellowstone National Park in the United States is famous for its thermal springs and Old Faithful
geyser. The reason for this is simple - it's sitting on top of the world's biggest volcano, and geological
experts are beginning to get nervous sweats. The Yellowstone volcano has a pattern of erupting every
650,000 years or so, and we're many years overdue for an explosion that will fill the atmosphere with
ash, blocking the sun and plunging the Earth into a frozen winter that could last up to 15,000 years.
The pressure under the Yellowstone is building steadily, and geologists have set 2012 as a likely date
for the big bang.

6. The Physicists 
This one's case of bog-simple maths mathematics. Physicists at Berekely Uni have been crunching
the numbers. and they've determined that the Earth is well overdue for a major catastrophic event.
Even worse, they're claiming their calculations prove, that we're all going to die, very soon - while also
saying their prediction comes with a certainty of 99 percent- and 2012 just happens to be the best
guess as to when it occurs.

7. Slip-Slop-Slap-BANG! 
We all know the Earth is surrounded by a magnetic field that shields us from most of the sun's
radiation. What you might not know is that the magnetic poles we call north and south have a nasty
habit of swapping places every 750,000 years or so - and right now we're about 30,000 years
overdue. Scientists have noted that the poles are drifting apart roughly 20-30kms each year, much
faster than ever before, which points to a pole-shift being right around the corner. While the pole shift
is underway, the magnetic field is disrupted and will eventually disappear, sometimes for up to 100
years. The result is enough UV outdoors to crisp your skin in seconds, killing everything it touches.

The Maya Calendar was the center of

Maya life and their greatest cultural
achievement. The Maya Calendar's
ancestral knowledge guided the Maya's
existence from the moment of their birth
and there was little that escaped its
influence. The Maya Calendar made
by the Maya World Studies
Centres in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico
follows a centuries old tradition. 
This Maya Calendar website is
developing with the intent of providing a
complete view of Maya culture; being
that the Maya world was centered on the
calendar, this name is more than
appropriate for the Maya World Studies
Center website. 
Click on the photo above or on the text
link below to enter and enjoy, make sure
you bookmark this site. Remember to
return soon for new information is
constantly added.
The Maya are probably the best-known of the classical civilizations of Mesoamerica. Mayan history
starts in the Yucatan around 2600 B.C., Mayan history rose to prominence around A.D. 250 in
present-day southern Mexico, Guatemala, western Honduras, El Salvador, and northern Belize.

Building on the inherited inventions and ideas of earlier civilizations such as the Olmec, the Maya
developed astronomy, calendrical systems and hieroglyphic writing. The Maya were noted as well for
elaborate and highly decorated ceremonial architecture, including temple-pyramids, palaces and
observatories, all built without metal tools. Mayan history shows that they were also skilled farmers,
clearing large sections of tropical rain forest and, where groundwater was scarce, building
sizeable underground reservoirs for the storage of rainwater. The Maya were equally skilled as
weavers and potters, and cleared routes through jungles and swamps to foster extensive trade
networks with distant peoples.

Many people believe that the ancestors of the Maya crossed the Bering Strait at least 20,000 years
ago. They were nomadic hunter-gatherers. Evidence of settled habitation in Mexico is found in the
Archaic period 5000-1500 BC - corn cultivation, basic pottery and stone tools.

The first true civilization was established with the rise of the Olmecs in the Pre-Classic period 1500
BC -300 AD. The Olmecs settled on the Gulf Coast, and little is known about them. 
Dr. Zecharia Sitchin theory....Nibiro with video in hindi  

vol⋅ca⋅no
  [vol-key-noh]   Show IPA
–noun,  plural  -noes,  -nos.
1. a vent in the earth's crust through which lava, steam, ashes,
 etc., are expelled, either continuously or at irregular
intervals.
2. a mountain or hill, usually having a cuplike crater at the
summit, formed around such a vent from the ash and lava
expelled through it.

Calendar
Main article: Lunar calendar

May-June 2005 calendar of lunar phases

The average calendrical month, which is 1/12 of a year, is about 30.4 days, while the Moon's phase (synodic)

cycle repeats every 29.53 days. Therefore the timing of the Moon's phases shifts by an average of about one day

for each successive month. If you photographed the Moon's phase every day for a month, starting in the evening

after sunset, and repeating approximately 25 minutes later each successive day, ending in the morning before

sunrise, you could create a composite image like the example calendar from May 8, 2005 to June 6, 2005. Note

that there is no picture on May 20 since a picture would be taken before midnight on May 19, and after midnight

on May 21. Similarly, if you look at a calendar listing moon rise or set times, some days will appear to be skipped.

When the Moon rises just before midnight one night it will rise just after midnight the next (so too with setting).

The 'skipped day' is just a calendar artifact and not the Moon behaving oddly.

A lunar eclipse is an eclipse which occurs whenever the moon passes behind the earth such that
the earth blocks the sun’s rays from striking the moon. This can occur only when the Sun, Earth, and Moon are
aligned exactly, or very closely so, with the Earth in the middle. Hence, there is always a full moon the night of a
lunar eclipse. The type and length of an eclipse depend upon the Moon’s location relative to its orbital nodes.
The next total lunar eclipse occurs on December 21, 2010

The Moon has fascinated mankind throughout the ages. By simply viewing with
the naked eye, one can discern two major types of terrain: relatively bright
highlands and darker plains. By the middle of the 17th century, Galileo and other
early astronomers made telescopic observations, noting an almost endless
overlapping of craters. It has also been known for more than a century that the
Moon is less dense than the Earth. Although a certain amount of information was
ascertained about the Moon before the space age, this new era has revealed many
secrets barely imaginable before that time. Current knowledge of the Moon is
greater than for any other solar system object except Earth. This lends to a greater
understanding of geologic processes and further appreciation of the complexity of
terrestrial planets.

On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first man to step onto the surface of
the Moon. He was followed by Edwin Aldrin, both of the Apollo 11 mission. They
and other moon walkers experienced the effects of no atmosphere. Radio
communications were used because sound waves can only be heard by travelling
through the medium of air. The lunar sky is always black because diffraction of
light requires an atmosphere. The astronauts also experienced gravitational
differences. The moon's gravity is one-sixth that of the Earth's; a man
who weighs 180 lbf (pound-force) on Earth weighs only 30 lbf on the Moon. (The
equivalent metric weight (or force) is the Newton, where 4.45 Newtons equal one
pound-force.)

The Moon is 384,403 kilometers (238,857 miles) distant from the Earth. Its
diameter is 3,476 kilometers (2,160 miles). Both the rotation of the Moon and its
revolution around Earth takes 27 days, 7 hours, and 43 minutes. This synchronous
rotation is caused by an unsymmetrical distribution of mass in the Moon, which
has allowed Earth's gravity to keep one lunar hemisphere permanently turned
toward Earth. Optical librations have been observed telescopically since the mid-
17th century. Very small but real librations (maximum about 0°.04) are caused by
the effect of the Sun's gravity and the eccentricity of Earth's orbit, perturbing the
Moon's orbit and allowing cyclical preponderances of torque in both east-west and
north-south directions.

Four nuclear powered seismic stations were installed during the Apollo project to
collect seismic data about the interior of the Moon. There is only residual tectonic
activity due to cooling and tidal forcing, but other moonquakes have been caused
by meteor impacts and artificial means, such as deliberately crashing the Lunar
Module into the moon. The results have shown the Moon to have a crust 60
kilometers (37 miles) thick at the center of the near side. If this crust is uniform
over the Moon, it would constitute about 10% of the Moon's volume as compared
to the less than 1% on Earth. The seismic determinations of a crust and mantle on
the Moon indicate a layered planet with differentiation by igneous processes. There
is no evidence for an iron-rich core unless it were a small one. Seismic information
has influenced theories about the formation and evolution of the Moon.

The Moon was heavily bombarded early in its history, which caused many of the
original rocks of the ancient crust to be thoroughly mixed, melted, buried, or
obliterated. Meteoritic impacts brought a variety of "exotic" rocks to the Moon so
that samples obtained from only 9 locations produced many different rock types
for study. The impacts also exposed Moon rocks of great depth and distributed
their fragments laterally away from their places of origin, making them more
accessible. The underlying crust was also thinned and cracked, allowing molten
basalt from the interior to reach the surface. Because the Moon has neither an
atmosphere nor any water, the components in the soils do not weather chemically
as they would on Earth. Rocks more than 4 billion years old still exist there,
yielding information about the early history of the solar system that is unavailable
on Earth. Geological activity on the Moon consists of occasional large impacts and
the continued formation of the regolith. It is thus considered geologically dead.
With such an active early history of bombardment and a relatively abrupt end of
heavy impact activity, the Moon is considered fossilized in time.

The Apollo and Luna missions returned 382 kilograms (840 pounds) of rock and
soil from which three major surface materials have been studied: the regolith, the
maria, and the terrae. Micrometeorite bombardment has thoroughly pulverized the
surface rocks into a fine-grained debris called the regolith. The regolith, or lunar
soil, is unconsolidated mineral grains, rock fragments, and combinations of these
which have been welded by impact-generated glass. It is found over the entire
Moon, with the exception of steep crater and valley walls. It is 2 to 8 meters (7 to
26 feet) thick on the maria and may exceed 15 meters (49 feet) on the terrae,
depending on how long the bedrock underneath it has been exposed to meteoritic
bombardment.

The dark, relatively lightly cratered maria cover about 16% of the lunar surface and
is concentrated on the nearside of the Moon, mostly within impact basins. This
concentration may be explained by the fact that the Moon's center of mass is offset
from its geometric center by about 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) in the direction of
Earth, probably because the crust is thicker on the farside. It is possible, therefore,
that basalt magmas rising from the interior reached the surface easily on the
nearside, but encountered difficulty on the farside. Mare rocks are basalt and most
date from 3.8 to 3.1 billion years. Some fragments in highland breccias date to 4.3
billion years and high resolution photographs suggest some mare flows actually
embay young craters and may thus be as young as 1 billion years. The maria
average only a few hundred meters in thickness but are so massive they frequently
deformed the crust underneath them which created fault-like depressions and raised
ridges.

The relatively bright, heavily cratered highlands are called terrae. The craters and
basins in the highlands are formed by meteorite impact and are thus older than the
maria, having accumulated more craters. The dominant rock type in this region
contain high contents of plagioclase feldspar (a mineral rich in calcium and
aluminum) and are a mixture of crustal fragments brecciated by meteorite impacts.
Most terrae breccias are composed of still older breccia fragments. Other terrae
samples are fine-grained crystalline rocks formed by shock melting due to the high
pressures of an impact event. Nearly all of the highland breccias and impact melts
formed about 4.0 to 3.8 billion years ago. The intense bombardment began 4.6
billion years ago, which is the estimated time of the Moon's origin.

Moon Statistics
Mass (kg) 7.349e+22
Mass (Earth = 1) 1.2298e-02
Equatorial radius (km) 1,737.4
Equatorial radius (Earth = 1) 2.7241e-01
Mean density (gm/cm^3) 3.34
Mean distance from Earth (km) 384,400
Rotational period (days) 27.32166
Orbital period (days) 27.32166
Average length of lunar day (days) 29.53059
Mean orbital velocity (km/sec) 1.03
Orbital eccentricity 0.0549
Tilt of axis (degrees) 1.5424
Orbital inclination (degrees) 5.1454
Equatorial surface gravity
1.62
(m/sec^2)
Equatorial escape velocity (km/sec) 2.38
Visual geometric albedo 0.12
Magnitude (Vo) -12.74
Mean surface temperature (day) 107°C
Mean surface temperature (night) -153°C
Maximum surface temperature 123°C
Minimum surface temperature -233°C