Qingyang event

Qingyang
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The Qingyang event was a presumed meteor shower or air burst that took place near Qingyang in March or April 1490. The area was at the time part of Shaanxi, but is now in Gansu province. A 1994 study in the journal Meteoritics tentatively explained this event as a meteor air burst.

Historical Chinese accounts of the meteor shower recorded many deaths, although the official Ming dynasty history records the event without reporting the number of victims. In the same year, Asian astronomers coincidentally discovered comet C/1490 Y1, a possible progenitor of the Quadrantid meteor showers.

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