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From the mural painting discovered in the city of Mayapan, the archaeoastronomer Jesus Galindo raises the possibility that Maya have been able to record the transit of Venus the solar disk will happen this year and not Apocalypse .
The researcher of the Institute of Aesthetic Research of the UNAM, will give the lecture “Mayan Apocalypse in 2012?: A View from the Mesoamerican astronomy and culture” on Thursday January 19 at 12:00 pm in the Auditorium of the Center Information from the National Institute of Astrophysics, Optics and Electronics in Tonantzintla.
The next 5 and 6 June, the planet Venus will be visible from Earth as a dark spot crossing in front of the Sun This show is produced by the transit of the planet passing in front of the King Star when the Earth is also aligned and allows us to see , in Mexico will occur after the setting sun
For scientists, this is a very important event because it allows perfect measure of how the Sun is separate from Earth. The next will occur in 2117.
According to Galindo Trejo Mayan priest-astronomers may have set their own calendrical for the day of that traffic is important to complete a calendar cycle.
The seminar is held under the 40 th anniversary of the creation of INAOE and 70 years of the founding of the National Astrophysical Observatory of Tonantzintla (OANTON).
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