There are plenty of outlandish predictions about how the world is going to end on December 12, 2012 – by fire from an unprecedented solar storm, earthquakes, and a sudden shift of the earth on its axis. But one of the kookiest has to be the so-called Nibiru cataclysm, which will supposedly occur when a planet from the Zeta Reticuli galaxy (39 light years away) collides with the planet earth.