A Clip About the 2012 Prophesy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGPcjMe6Qlw

Here is a clip about the "astronomy of 2012" - descirbing a bit about the science behind the Mayan prophesy that the Earth will end in 2012, hence the new action movie 2012. My undergraduate degree is in Latin American Studies so I think that the Mayans are a fascinating people.

I liked the clip because it is a fairly understandable discussion of a facet of astronomy which I ha not considered, and it had some good graphics and even some astrophotography of our own galaxy.

Pix from Flickr

This was posted to Flickr in AndyRob's photos, "Astronomy for beginers" - very nice, really detailed. This is the sort of picture I have been trying to take! Not too easy if you do not have the right equipment. I tried to look for the meteor shower last night but it was TOO windy in Boulder. Saw 1 meteor than got SO cold I had to get home.