2012 events

2012 EVENTS

  • January 31, 2012   –   433 Eros, the second-largest Near Earth Object on record (size 13x13x33 km) will pass Earth at 0.1790 astronomical units (26,778,019 km; 16,639,090 mi). NASA studied Eros with the NEAR Shoemaker probe launched on 1996-02-17.
  • May 20, 2012   –   Annular solar eclipse, a Sunday. Path of totality runs through the Pacific Ocean from northern China to California.
  • June 6, 2012   –   The second and last solar transit of Venus of the century. The next pair is predicted to occur in 2117 and 2125.
  • November 6, 2012   –   The United States Presidential, Senate, and House of Representatives elections.
  • November 13, 2012   –   Total solar eclipse, (visible in northern Australia and the South Pacific).
  • November 28, 2012   –   Penumbral lunar eclipse.
  • December 3, 2012   –   Jupiter oppositions.
  • December 21, 2012 @ 11:11 UTC   –   Winter Solstice in the Northern Hemisphere, Summer Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • December 21, 2012   –   The sun will reverse its own magnetic poles as a result of reaching the end of the current 11-year sunspot cycle.
  • December 21, 2012   –   Winter solstice, also known as Yule
  • December 21, 2012   –   The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, notably used by the Maya civilization among others of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, completes its thirteenth b’ak’tun cycle since the calendar’s mythical starting point (equivalent to August 11, 3114 BC in the proleptic Gregorian calendar, according to the “GMT-correlation” JDN= 584283). 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, and there is an incomplete inscription (Tortuguero Monument 6) that records this date. It is also to be found carved on the walls of The temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, where it functions as a base date from which other dates are computed. This date figures prominently in the religious syncretism of New Age Mayanism.
  • December 23, 2012   –   The alternative date for the completion of the thirteenth b’ak’tun cycle in the Maya calendar, using a version of the GMT-correlation based on a JDN of 584285 (a.k.a. the “astronomical” or “Lounsbury correlation”), which is supported by a smaller number of Mayanist researchers.

Research about the year 2012   –   http://2012.alamongordo.com

The Apocalypse of John

The Revelation to John

An astronomic historical Investigation is the title of the German edition of the 1905 book by the Russian astronomer Nikolai Alexandrovich Morozov.

  1. The weekday of the event is named explicitly : Rev. 1,10: I was in the Spirit on Sunday.
  2. The description of the skies starts quite systematically at the pole with a constellation named Throne (today: Ursa Minor) : Rev. 4,2: And a throne was set in heaven.
  3. The text continues mentioning the Milky Way and the signs of the zodiac denoting the four seasons: Lion, Taurus, Sagittarius and Eagle (today: Aquarius): Rev. 4,6-7: And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind. And the first beast was like a lion, and the second beast like a calf, and the third beast had a face as a man, and the fourth beast was like a flying eagle.
  4. The four horses were interpreted by Morozov as traditional metaphors for the planets Jupiter, Mars, Mercury and Saturn. The constellations Sagittarius, Perseus, Libra and Scorpion were sitting on them : Rev. 6,2: And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow. Rev. 6,4: And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword. Rev. 6,5: And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand. Rev. 6,8: And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.
  5. Sun and Moon were named explicitly. The only female character within the zodiac is Virgo : Rev. 12,1: A woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.
  6. As a Harlot, the planet Venus will be blamed, eventually. Venus, the symbol of female eroticism, united with the red star Antares (Anti-Mars) within the constellation Scorpion: Rev. 17,3-4: and I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet colored beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet color, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication.

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