Talk:Great Rift (astronomy)

incompatible units

 * 100 parsecs or 2200 light years

Last time I looked, a parsec was about 3 light-years, not 22. (I'm willing to believe that it's 100 parsecs or 2200 light-years, but that's like saying Charles Darwin was born in 1809 or 1066!) —Tamfang (talk) 03:06, 12 May 2009 (UTC)


 * The current article text is "abbout 100 parsecs or about 300 light years"
 * The reference at http://www.answers.com/topic/great-rift says it is "about 100 parsecs (2×1015 miles or 3×1015 kilometers) distant" (on the order of 326 light years), whereas http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/243658/Great-Rift says "several thousand light years away".
 * So we need better refs, or fewer claims....
 * ★NealMcB★ (talk) 05:33, 21 July 2011 (UTC)


 * I changed the distance to 800 - 1000 pc, see the reference (at the end of section 5.3). Hobbema (talk) 02:09, 2 March 2018 (UTC)

According to ...
"According to the Mayan Calandar, the Sun will pass through the "Dark Lane" of the Great Rift, causing Great Catastrophy on Earth." - I took this out because the "2012 Phenomenom" article specifically says this is is NOT stated in most legends/myths. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.39.157.193 (talk) 23:18, 16 April 2011 (UTC)

Dark Side
I have removed the alternative name Dark Side. I can find no evidence of this use and suspect vanadism linked to Star Wars movies. Lumos3 (talk) 21:58, 21 December 2017 (UTC)