3113 to 2012

We are hearing a lot about 2012 and over the next 4+ yeras, we're going to hear a lot more. But, who has heard anything about 3113? Aha! Maybe I can enlighten you a bit more about that infamous year and it's import and connection to 2012. There is one you know.  

A comet (and most believe that it was Proto-Encke) collides with the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. The result was the Stohl meteor stream which eventually became the Taurid meteors. The Taurids are an annual meteor shower associated with the comet Encke. They are named after their radiant point in the constellation Taurus, where they are seen to come from in the sky. Because of their occurrence in late October and early November, they are also called Halloween fireballs.

Now you know some interesting trivia for this fall.  :-)

Duncan Steel, a research astronomer at the Joule Physics Laboratory at the University of Salford, and a world-renowned authority on the comet hazard, has written, "A series of four comets spaced one month apart made terrestrial orbit intersections with the earth around 3113." The 500 foot wide Henbury crater in north central Australia was created by just this event.

Severe earthquakes and volcanism triggered by the meteroic material striking the earth, setting off major geological changes of which the beginning destruction of Atlantis in the Mid-Atlantic Ridge broke off and submerged portions of Atlantis. The Persian flood stories from which the Biblical flood story was partially used comes as a result of the major catastrophies. Massive migrations of people took place.

One such migration came about in Mesoamerica as the Olmecs began their hetitage. And it was in this season that the Mayans reached the shores of the Yucatan from the Hun yecil (Drowning of trees).And it was on August 12, 1313 that the Mayans began the long count calendar that ends on December 21, 2012.

Now you know.............the rest, of the story!   :-)