The Moon is about to pass directly in front of the sun, producing an annular solar eclipse on Jan. 15th between 05:00 and 09:00 GMT.
The zone of visibility stretches from Africa across the Indian Ocean to eastern Asia.
Onlookers in those places should be alert for crescent-shaped shadows on the ground and “ring of fire” suns in the sky.
Details of the eclipse are here.
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If the world is going to end and that is what many people believe to some degree, than I say let's party like it's December 20, 2012. Stop going to the gym, don't pay your bills and who cares about trying to fix your failing marriage. I think maybe people should read more information about the Mayan Calender and then maybe they will see that is just ends and that is all. Some people believe that this date will usher in a new era of spiritual transformation, who knows, I don't. However in doing just a marginal amount of research there are many things that will be happening during that year. Things like:
1: Leap Year
2: January 31 – 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.
3: May 20 – Annular solar eclipse, a Sunday. Path of totality runs through the pacific ocean from northern China to California.
4: July 1 – Presidential Elections in Mexico.
5:August 29 – Start of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.
6: October 19 – at 01:36 UTC, the Earth will be home to 7 billion people, according to the US Census Bureau.
7: November 6 – The United States Presidential, Senate, and House of Representatives elections.
8: November 13 – Total solar eclipse (visible in northern Australia and the South Pacific).
9: December 21 – 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) 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.
10: December 23 – 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.
That is just a fraction of what is happening that year. Thank you to Wikipedia for the info.
Let's all just worry about getting through today, because tomorrow is coming whether you are prepared or not.