What does it mean when people say that on dec. 21 2012 the planets are going to inline and is it true?

Question

i saw it on an answer because it said that the world is not going to end but the planets are going to be inlined or something but like what does that mean by "they are going to be inlined" and how does the planets do that IF THEY REALLY ARE like is it magic? And is that really going to happen?

Answer 1

Some people have _claimed_ that the planets will align in 2012. Celestial mechanics is one of the most exact sciences, and we know exactly how the planets are going to move for thousands of years into the future. In fact there are many computer programs which show this. When I heard that there was going to be a planetary alignment in 2012, I naturally checked it out with Starry Night software. I found not a single planetary alignment in the whole year, not even of two or three planets, let alone all eight. In fact, there hasn't been a complete alignment of all 8 planets in the entire 5 billion years the Solar System has existed.



What is going to happen on December 21 2012 is that there will be a rough alignment of the Earth, the Sun, and the centre of the Milky Way Galaxy. When I say rough, there's a 6 degree bend in the middle of the line. This is no big deal, because this same alignment happens EVERY year on the same date, and has for hundreds of years. It happened a few weeks ago, in fact, on December 21 2011. Did you notice anything?



When this "alignment" happens, what does it mean? Absolutely nothing. Gravity is a force which decreases with distance. That's why the Moon has a major effect on the Earth's tides while the Sun, which is much more massive but farther away, has very little. The centre of the Galaxy is of course much more massive than the Sun, but it is so very far away that it has absolutely no effect on the Earth. To get some idea of the relative sizes of the distances of Sun and Galactic Centre, the Sun is eight light MINUTES away while the Galactic Centre is 27,000 light YEARS away. Figure out how many minutes there are in a year, and divide by eight, and then multiply by 27000, and that will tell you how many times farther away the Galactic Centre is than the Sun (about 2 billion times farther!)

Answer 2

They mean that many or all of the planets of our solar system will all be lined up in orbit and that they will also align with certain key stars and points within the milky way. This is not the case. An 8 planet alignment with the moon and sun only happens every 6 million years or more. The nearest an alignment has ever come in our lifetime was in the 1940s when 4 planets came within 4.9 degrees of each other. There have been alignments of 4 planets, the moon and us over the last twenty years, but it is never less than 9% from a perfect alignment. The nest “near” alignment will be in 2042 when 5 planets align fairly close.



So, as this supposedly foretold alignment astoronomically cannot happen, there is nothing to be worried about.

Answer 3

It is actually impossible for all the planets in the solar system to line up. About once in a gazillion years they get close to it and the effect on the Earth would be all but zero since all but Venus are too far away. It will not happen in 2012.



Venus when closest is said by some to raise a tide in the middle of the Pacific Ocean a millimetre or so high. others say the effect is too small to be measured. Impressive, eh? This happens regularly.



The entire thing was invented by the late Jose Arguelles who got high and decided that 21 December 2012 was going to be a great spiritual change and started talking about a Mayan god no Mayan had ever heard of.



When Nancy Lieder's prophecy of planet X damaging the Earth on 13 May 2003 failed, the people who were making money out of it just transferred the doomsday to 21 December 2012 and started lying about it as well. It's all about profits, not prophets.

Answer 4

They align perfectly every few years and besides that's not even the next day thats going to happen but that has happened a lot thru history but some 2012 conspiritors say that the planets are going to line up and were going to be in the exact center of the milky way which will cause some kind of destruction but that's false we do actually go in the dead center of the milky way every 33,000 years or so and were about 20,000 years from it happening again and yes the planets have all aligned during that time as well and nothing has happened in the 4.5 billion years earth has been around

Answer 5

There is no planetary alignment in 2012 or anytime close. But it meens that all of the planets that orbit the sun will be in perfect alignment. It had happend before in earths time but does not mean anything bad will happen. The earth is not ending in 2012. It's just another year.

Answer 6

21 Dec, 2012 is the end of the Mayan Long Count Calender and some people take that to mean the world will end. Those People are very very stupid.



There are NO alignments in 2012, That story is a HOAX.



Read this: www.2012hoax.org

Answer 7

It means they're credulous or stupid.



Me, when I first heard that, the first thing I did was pull up a star chart for that night, and noted that it wasn't the case. And you know, even if there were some significant alignment, I've been around long enough to remember the LAST time they pretended that meant doomsday.



What kind of destruction? None.

Answer 8

according to some scholars the last time the planets were aligned was about 4500 years ago.

And the earth was flooded..

some other scholars believe that the next alignment of planets will cause fire destruction.

Any super natural event, can't be predicted accurately. If there is a Creator I am sure he got everything

under control.

If there is no Creator, perhaps we get lucky and we become super natural human beings after any

fire destruction.

Don't panic, the truth shall be reveal to you in its own time!

Answer 9

Yes. In Astrology it is call an alignment. Not magic, It is a true fact. Some people say bad things could happen when there is an alignment. Not magic.

Answer 10

there will be no planet alignment, however I do believe life as we know it will change...for the worst.

Answer 11

It actually means they are all going to go rollerblading in the park.