2012 Apocolypse

NASA has taken notice of all the rumors swirling around the potential Apocolypse on the 21st of Decemeber this year. Supposedly a massive meteor, Nibiru, is hurtling through space headed for Earth, the sun is going to overheat as it enters it's next solar cycle, or the planets are going to allign and cause some sort of natural disaster. It is almost common knowledge that these accusations are false, but some of the people claiming these things seem to have evidence. One of them even released a fake statement from NASA about the possible disasters that will occur. Don Yeomans, a senior research scientist, took the time to ease everyone who is panicking about these claims, though very sarcastically. He takes time to outline the lack of evidence to back up all of these claims.

Nibiru has not been found by any telescope, and with our current technology could be detected if it was actually close enough to hit the earth.

The sun experiences an 11 year old cycle where the solar flares and sun spots vary in activity. A new cycle is set to begin within the next year, but the increased solar activity that comes along with a new sun cycle will not affect the Earth at all. We know this because these solar cycles have been occurring for as long as the sun has existed.

The claims that a planetary alignment will cause the Apocolypse are entirely false, because not only are the planets not aligning any time in the next few decades, this happens quite regularly in astronomical time and nothing on Earth is effected.

Overall, the world might end in 2012, but it definetly isn't related to space related. Thanks NASA for placating my fears.

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/yoemans20091110.html