9th Minute

Within the next decade, numerous significant astronomical events will take place. Will the world end? The 9th Minute covers our version of what will happen December 21, 2012 in a fast-paced story describing the pursuit for commercial space travel as the human race contemplates the possibility of its demise by cataclysmic events. The Mayans considered December 21st, 2012 to be the completion of two major influential cycles of approximately 26,000 years in both the precession cycle of the Earth and the direct alignment of our Sun with the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The 9th Minute has an accompanying product, the StarDial sky map, stardial.us, which shows the correlation between Mayan ancient prophecies of the Plumed Serpent as mirrored by the Western tradition of thirteen constellations on the Ecliptic.