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The Galactic Alignment is the alignment of the December solstice sun with the Galactic equator. This alignment occurs as a result of the precession of the equinoxes.
Precession is caused by the earth wobbling very slowly on its axis and shifts the position of the equinoxes and solstices one degree every 71.5 years. 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 (see diagram below).
The precise alignment of the solstice point (the precise center-point of the body of the sun as viewed from earth) with the Galactic equator was calculated to occur in 1998 (Jean Meeus, Mathematical Astronomy Morsels, 1997).
Thus, the Galactic Alignment "zone" is 1998 +/- 18 years = 1980 - 2016. This is "era-2012."
This Galactic Alignment occurs only once every 26,000 years, and was what the ancient Maya were pointing to with the 2012 end-date of their Long Count calendar.
These are the astronomical facts of the matter. From a larger perspective, we can visualize the 2012 Galactic Alignment in the following way:
Position A is where the December solstice sun was in relation to the Milky Way some 3,000 years ago. Position B is 1,500 years ago. And position C is "era-2012", when the December solstice sun has converged, as a result of the precession of the equinoxes, with the exact center-line of the Milky Way (the Galactic equator). Notice that the place of alignment is where the 'nuclear bulge' of the Galactic Center is located.
Originally posted by ATS4dummies
Rubbish? Hmm Perhaps. But what if we forget about the propaganda hype and just "Let the data tell the story"?
Mass Extinctions every 65 million years:
And The earth passes through the galactic Garbage Heap equator every, 65 million years? Well I'll be darned...
And it looks like we are due for another pass through the galactic garbage heap in, well look at that, 2012 - you mean the SAME year the Aztec Calendar ends??!
What a coincidence
Originally posted by OzWeatherman
I dont understand how something that has failed to appear so many times in the past, is still believed to be heading for our solar system. I also dont understand why Nibiru'ers (yes I created a new word) take the word of and economist (Sitchin is not an ancient texts scholar) and fuzzy youtube videos instead of actually doing some half decent research for themselves
And whats with the "Nibiru" is only visible from the south pole? Another good example of the misinformation and uneducated statements spread by the Nibiru'ers.
Again, a beautiful example of a lack of research
Another point, is the failure of Nibiru to appear in 1998, 2000, 2003 and 2005. Now its been put back to 2012 (wonder where it will be put back to after 2012). How many prophets/ prophecies does it take to get it right? I mean if it is coming, wasnt it supposed to have already done so, several times in the past?
Do some real research on Brown dwarfs, ancient sumerian text and stop flooding ATS with this load of rubbish
Originally posted by star in a jar
Why don't you wait until 2013? If Nibiru is a brown dwarf, I don't know if we could even see it. I suppose we could 'feel' Nibiru or experience its effects.
Only one thing has played on my mind about Nibiru, and i cant find the information i need, that information is on Voyager 1, i remember seeing an official diagram online, which pointed to Voyager 1 leaving our solar system at 34 degrees off the elliptical plain of the solar system, also with some information i read that nibiru had an orbit which was supposed to bring it into the inner system at a similar angle, if this is true about Voyager 1 was it sent that way to intercept with it?
You cannot use the data Pioneer 10 or 11 provides to disprove the Brown Dwarf Theory. That technology and intruments used are so 70's ish. It is possible in the HD era that we may find a Brown Dwarf. We just have to wait and see.
Why don't you wait until 2013? If Nibiru is a brown dwarf, I don't know if we could even see it.
I believe it is unforgivable we have no global plan of action in the event a rogue meteor threatens earth.
Originally posted by OzWeatherman
I get fed up with the load of crappy evidence that is used to attempt to prove that Nibiru is a fact. I wrote this thread because its a shame to see ATS heading this way...i miss the days where people would post some decent evidence and everyone was able to engage in intelligent discussion/ argument
Originally posted by NorthWolfe CND
Poor research, absolutely no knowledge of anything and even worse "sources"...All this combined and I guess we would be better informed on subjects like these in a Psychiatric ward then on the ATS board...
Originally posted by Dagar
** Censuring by the mods... A very painful and humiliating process involving a bungee rope, a nutcracker, a feather duster, some nail polish, and a banana.