is it true that on 12/23/2012 the planets will line up in a row?

Yes. The ancient Mayans were obsessed with keeping accurate time. They were able to accurately predict Every single full moon, solar eclipse. lunar eclipse, and comets. There calender is still true and accurate to every single moon phase, every cosmic event is says will come to pass has come to pass at the time it predicted. Hundreds of years ago they were able to form a calendar for this life on earth and they ended it abruptly on that day. They also mentioned the alignment of the planets and the magnetic field being altered throughout the solar system. Modern scientists and astrologers have also confirmed that the planetary alignment is drawing near.

No.

While a rough alignment is possible in some years for some of the inner planets, all the planets out to Pluto will align at some time in the gigantically distant future, trillions of years after the Sun becomes a cold, dark cinder. It is so unimaginably far in the future that it it's possible that the entire Universe could be just about "burnt out" by then.

The only planet with a more or less measurable effect on the Earth (as opposed to a calculated or imaginary one) is Venus. Though Earth, Venus and the Sun are in a rough line pretty often, the different inclinations of the orbits of the two planets mean that the line up is rarely close enough for Venus to be actually between the Earth and Sun.

Venus passes across the face of the Sun as seen from the Earth on a regular schedule, this is called a "transit of Venus". The next one is due on 6 June 2012, then not again until 2117.

First of all, it is impossible for all the planets to form a straight line out from the Sun (or viewed superimposed on each other in the sky) because each planetary orbit is tilted slightly (and sometimes not slight at all in the case of Pluto) with respect to the Earth's orbit).

The solar system is not "flat", contrary to what most people think.

I just checked this date in Starry Night software, and there is absolutely no alignment of any of the planets. They're scattered in various directions as seen from the centre of the solar system, the Sun. The closest grouping is Mercury, Venus, and Saturn, but even they are spread over a 12 degree angle.

No. Not even close. Here is a link to an online orrery. Put in the date you want and it will display the location of the planets for that day.

http://www.fourmilab.ch/cgi-bin/Solar

I wish YA allowed posting visuals rather than links. I hope you bother to check out this site.

you have two choices.

1) live in ignorance. When someone (your drunken bud at school) says "The planets will all line up in 2012 and we will all DIIIIIIIEEEE!" you just believe him and repeat it. (its best to repeat it to younger kids, who look up to you as smarter)

2) look it up. Its tough to find out about where the planets will be in 2012, but far from impossible. Here is a handy simulator:

http://astro.u-strasbg.fr/~koppen/orbitviewer/hall...

its fun and simple and BOY does it blow holes in the "Planetary Alignment" crap.

That in New World Order propaganda. They use New Age silly people to achieve their agendas.

nobody can say that for sure. Let's wait and see.

No

wait and see... and i hope i am not yet retired when that time comes...LOL!