Source: http://dark-truth.blogspot.com/2007/04/201...y-research.html
There are many scientific facts that will happen in 2012. Such as those already mentioned here about sunspots etc. And a very peculiar alignment of the planets and something about the constellations I can't remember in details now, the pole shift on the sun etc. That aside, I've discovered on my own another interesting fact. The Mayan have a 5200 year cycle, which will reach the end at 2012. These cycles always signify something of great importance, major changes. I discovered that around 5200 years ago there was a great disaster on earth, a minor ice age and so on. Is that just coincidence, or did the Mayans actually know this and know that it will happen something major again in the end of the next cycle which is 2012?
For an article about what happened 5200 years ago in a scientific paper completely unrelated to
the Mayans and 2012 myth, check this article:
http://researchnews.osu.edu/archive/5200event.htm
And in this article the scientists say that we are close to another change like that which happened 5200 years ago... Again it matches perfectly with the Mayan prophecies. So, we should take the knowledge of the Mayans quite serious in my opinion. they knew what they were doing and thats a fact.
Also remember the great floods, past ice ages etc, that fits well with the Mayans cycles. Look them up, they have various cycles of different importance, going through many thousands of years. Actually they have cycles going millions of year back.
We just need to look at the current state of the world to see something is cooking (literally) - global warming, ice caps melting (which can cause floods etc), war, terror and instability, increase of natural disasters, magnetic poles of earth shifting and so on.
Some other links from NASA on stuff that will happen in space at 2012:
Venus transit -
Solar Storm , with solar max at 2012 -
2012 space mission -
Possible Pole shift in 2012
Total solar eclipse 2012
Nasas own short articles on the aztecs/mayas, stonehenge, and other ancient mysteries
Other things:
Asteroid Eros will enter closer to earth than ever before 2012
Winter Solstice occurs exactly 21. December 2012 at 11:11 UT.
Galactic alignment
Big scientific list of other celestial events at 2012
May be something to the Planet X thing too as well as the binary star
system theory which is quite interesting - watch the documentary The Great Year here