Where will the earth be in relation to the black hole in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy on Dec. 21. 2012?
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About the same location it is now.  Yes the sun is orbiting the galactic center, but so is everything around us.  Our radial distance will not change dramatically in such a short period of time, and our motion within the solar neighborhood really is not that great either.\n\nSo in short, right here.\n\nOh, and you are reading way to much into the turn-over of the Mayan long count callender.  That date has more to do with thier counting system than anything else.
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That covers only one Galaxy - Milky Way\nThe whole universe is yet to be discovered .... by humans
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The center of our galaxy is obscured by dust and celestial bodies in visible light.\n   Longer wave lengths , infrared and radio waves give an unfocused view of the center.\n   The cosensus is that a massive black hole inhabits the center.\n   Astronomers have reasoned the existance of the black hole by the unusual movement of stars in that area.\n   Thier reasoning is quite persuasive but several points belie this reasoning.\n   The stars orbit the black hole in highly elliptical orbits slingshoting out at incredible speed.\n   A star is a sturdy entity in its place but would be very fragile and vulnerable racing past  a black hole.[Remember, some years ago,the comet that crashed into Jupiter,it landed in pieces because of the tidal forces on its last trajectory, broke it up]\n   These stars that seem to race past a black hole would shed most,if not all their mass and would not complete the orbit.\n   Then what is at the center of our galaxy? This may take some inovation,but it is not a black hole because black holes are nonviable entities.\n  They would be anamolies among celestial bodies.No upper limit to their size.\n   The surface would trap light at "C".THe quantum effect would allow a small percentage of photons to spiral outward.producing a slight glow in white light.\n   Anything that penetrated the event horizon would have to exceed "C"[Time dilation notwithstanding]\n   This would leave the other end of the quantum effect with slower than "C"photons,that could not spiral out could not spiral in and could not maintain orbit!\n   So what the heck is at the center of our galaxy??\n   The answer may depend on the question;What the heck happens to a neutron star if black holes do not exist??!!
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Yes, our galaxy (and the local group) is generally heading in the direction of the virgo cluster of galaxies. All together, we are moving in the direction of a much larger structure called the 'Great Attractor' that is in the direction of the constallation of Centaurus. I'm guessing that this is what you heard about.\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Attractor
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it wont be here.....2036 theres an asteroid set to collide with earth the size of Texas...heard it on APNews
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check out http://www.answers.com/center%20of%20earth
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Stars revolve around the center of the galaxy.\nThe Sun revolves around the center of the milky way galaxy.
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This depends on the latitude you are. On the arctic circle, at noon. The further south you get, the later it will set, hitting 6am at the tropic of capricorn. On the antarctic circle it won't set on December 21st.
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The Earth is closest to the Sun on about 4 January of each year... Winter in the Northern Hemisphere\n\nMistWing SilverTail
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The nearest black hole known to us is near a visible star called V 4641, in the constellation Sagittarius just 1,600 light years away in the direction of the galactic center.  It is about 3 to 10 solar masses and is classified as a microquasar.
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Our solar system is located in the outer reaches of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is a spiral galaxy. The Milky Way Galaxy contains roughly 200 billion stars. Most of these stars are not visible from Earth. Almost everything that we can see in the sky belongs to the Milky Way Galaxy. \n\nThe sun is about 26,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy, which is about 80,000 to 120,000 light-years across (and less than 7,000 light-years thick). We are located on on one of its spiral arms, out towards the edge, called the "Orion Arm". \n\nIt takes the sun (and our solar system) roughly 200-250 million years to orbit once around the Milky Way. In this orbit, we (and the rest of the Solar System) are traveling at a velocity of about 155 miles/sec (250 km/sec). \n\nThe centre of the Milky Way Galaxy lies in the direction of the constellation Sagittarius.
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Unless we do something, life on Earth will most likely not exist once the Sun supernovas. If 'we' can figure out how to live elsewhere by then, ostensibly the galaxy is our playground. Big challenges involved though. It seems it would make sense to just move the Earth. Why not? 'we' could move the Earth, don't you think? What part of the galaxy should we move to. I'm sure we'd mostly like to stick around the Sun and it's leftovers, but we could choose to ride the Solar wind to another star. (Don't worry, humans won't have to do the hard labor of converting the Earth into a space ship with temperature and climate control). \n\nIt'll be fun. Like a road trip. Too bad we won't be alive. Probably no actual humans, either. I hope they're cool who/whatever they are.
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It'll still be the center of the world...
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It will be from way out on a plane based on our orbital track. I think the intensity of the sun will block out the view of whether or not it goes behind or in front of the sun. The center of the universe, even though it is a non-existent place, for arguments sake, would be moving as everything in the universe is dynamic. (There is no end to infinite, therefore the center cannot be defined.)
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The end of the world is Sunday, December 23, 2012. I think I'll be here when that time comes. There will be a comet and everyone will look to the skies. And if it doesn't happen on that day, oh well, it gave me something to look forward to, and I'll continue on with a normal life, but I'm still not gonna waste that month trying to find Christmas presents for everyone.
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Centrifugal forces keep Earth at a great distance from being converted from mass to energy~ Andromeda is more of a threat to us than the core of our own galaxy "Misses Milky"!!!!
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the sun moves,  like the planets around the sun our solar system moves with all the other 100-BILLION stars around the center or our galaxy,  the motions and speeds are unoticable cuase of the massive distances between us and all object around us\n\nEDIT - to gizmo WRONG,  the center of our galaxy is occupied by a Super-Massive Black Hole,  we are 26,000 light-years from the galactic center.  and a comparison,  there is 4.5 light-years of empty space between us and our closest system alpha-centurie.  at the galactic center the distances between the stars is on average like the distance between the sun and saturn-neptune.   that 10,000 times closer then the sun to alpha-centurie.  nice try though