Talk:Vela Pulsar

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The Vela pulsar supernova remnant is quite close to us. I have seen the distance stated as 800 light years and 1500 light years, and the time of explosion as 10,000 years ago (plus 800 or 1500). In any case, it is close enough to Earth to have had significant effects on our climate and ecosystems. This could be related to known climatic changes. 66.171.182.141 (talk) 02:07, 20 January 2008 (UTC)

The Vela pulsar has an estimated age of 11300 years. This means that the remnants of the supernovae first reached us around 11300 years ago. At a distance of 946 light years I would expect the effect to be minimal. And 11300 years is a bit too long ago to affect current climates. Jim77742 (talk) 04:23, 25 January 2008 (UTC)