http://2012-comet.com 2012 End of the World Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:15:40 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en NASA's MESSENGER space probe has just had its third and closest flyby of Mercury, and has sent back pictures and data that will help to fill in our understanding of the solar system's innermost planet. In this encounter, the probe imaged five percent of Mercury's surface that had never ... http://2012-comet.com/astronomy/mercury-probe-performs-third-flyby/ Water on the surface of the Earth's moon may be the greatest astrogeological discovery since Neil Armstrong first stepped onto the lunar surface back in 1969. Greg Delory, University of California, Berkeley said of the discovery, "Rather than a dead and unchanging world, it could in fact be a very ... http://2012-comet.com/astronomy/lcross-discovers-water-on-the-moon/ With the release of the latest action-packed Hollywood blockbuster, 2012, there can’t be too many people around who don’t yet realize the significance of this year, specifically December 21st, 2012. The movie is a frightening and realistic account of the last days of the world and mankind’s desperate attempts to ... http://2012-comet.com/2012-predictions/2012-%e2%80%93-the-end-of-civilization-as-we-know-it/ December 31, 2009 will bring not only celebrations but a partial lunar eclipse. This is the last eclipse of the year. It will be viewable in Europe, most of Africa, and Asia. It is common belief that India and Pakistan are the prime viewing regions. This is considered a minor partial ... http://2012-comet.com/astronomy/new-years-eve-ushers-in-a-partial-lunar-eclipse/ Every winter around the middle of December one of the most spectacular meteor showers of the year occurs like clockwork. It is known as the Geminids meteor shower and it begins on December 6th and ends around December 19th. In the middle of this duration is when it will reach ... http://2012-comet.com/astronomy/the-annual-winter-meteor-shower-geminids/ The Hubble Space telescope’s newest camera is already filling in gaps in astronomers’ understanding of events previously too distant and remote to be studied accurately. The Wide Field Camera 3, or WFC3, was installed in May of this year and was expected to become the Hubble’s new primary instrument. With ... http://2012-comet.com/astronomy/hubble-telescope-upgrade/ Life on earth began in the ocean, so it just stands to reason that if life exists on other planets it may be found not on the land but in the sea. Expanding the search for extraterrestrial life to the waters also gives scientists a wealth of new options ... http://2012-comet.com/astronomy/the-hunt-for-extraterrestrial-life-hits-the-high-seas/ 2010 brings us a decade into this century and in the middle of the first month it will bring us the first solar eclipse of the year. On January 15th the annular solar eclipse will be in the middle of the African continent traveling across the Indian Ocean and on ... http://2012-comet.com/astronomy/the-first-solar-eclipse-for-2010/ “Houston We Have A Problem” Did We Really Walk On The Moon? What would you say if I told you World War II never happened? Or that George Bush is really an alien impostor? You’d probably call me crazy, and you’d probably be right. But what if I told you ... http://2012-comet.com/astronomy/did-we-really-walk-on-the-moon/ More than five hundred years after his birth, the prophesies of Nostradamus continue to intrigue, fascinate, and confound. Should we label him a prophet or a fraud? Was he the greatest psychic known to man, or a charlatan, whose verses can be too easily manipulated? His supporters maintain that he predicted ... http://2012-comet.com/2012-predictions/the-legend-of-nostradamus/