The Qingyang event was a presumed meteor shower or air burst that took place near Qingyang in March or April 1490.[1][2] The area was at the time part of Shaanxi, but is now in Gansu province.[2] A 1994 study in the journal Meteoritics tentatively explained this event as a meteor air burst.[1]
Some historical Chinese accounts of the meteor shower recorded many deaths,[2] but the official Ming dynasty history records the event without mentioning casualties.[1][3] The casualties are therefore doubted by many researchers in the modern era. In the same year, Asian astronomers coincidentally discovered comet C/1490 Y1, a possible progenitor of the Quadrantid meteor showers.[4]
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