19-December-2006, 02:55 PM
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Originally Posted by dirty_g
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That does seem to be a pretty good article (comparing to other stuff I read and a college history of astronomy course 25 years ago). One bit that is important to the whole 2012 thing....
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The most commonly accepted correlation is the "Goodman, Martinez, Thompson" correlation (GMT correlation). The GMT correlation establishes that the 13.0.0.0.0 creation date occurred on 3114 BCE September 6 (Julian) or 3114 BCE August 11 (Gregorian), Julian day number (JDN) 584283, the number of days since the start of the Julian Period. This correlation fits the astronomical, ethnographic, carbon dating, and historical sources. However, there have been other correlations that have been proposed at various times. All of the following are only of historical interest, except that by Floyd Lounsbury, two days after the GMT correlation, which is still used by a few Maya scholars.
Today, 18:32, Saturday December 16, 2006 (UTC), in the Long Count is 12.19.13.16.3.
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In other words, it is not completely established that 2012 is even the magic roll-over year.
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