Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p The Ch'ing-yang event of 1490 (also Ch'ing-yang, Chi-ing-yang or Chíing-yang meteor shower) is a presumed meteor shower in the Qìngyáng (Ch'ing-Yang, simplified Chinese: 庆阳; traditional Chinese: 慶陽) district of the then-Chinese province of Shaanxi (陕西, now part of Gansu 甘肃 Province), in March or April 1490 CE, with one source dating the event to April 4, 1490. If a meteor shower did occur, it may have been the result of the disintegration of an asteroid during an atmospheric entry air burst.A large number of deaths were recorded in historical Chinese accounts of the meteor shower, but have never been confirmed by 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. Researchers have also noted the general proximity of the Ch'ing-yang event to the last major Australian tsunami which occurred approximately 1500 CE.. }
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- 1490_Ch'ing-yang_event abstract "The Ch'ing-yang event of 1490 (also Ch'ing-yang, Chi-ing-yang or Chíing-yang meteor shower) is a presumed meteor shower in the Qìngyáng (Ch'ing-Yang, simplified Chinese: 庆阳; traditional Chinese: 慶陽) district of the then-Chinese province of Shaanxi (陕西, now part of Gansu 甘肃 Province), in March or April 1490 CE, with one source dating the event to April 4, 1490. If a meteor shower did occur, it may have been the result of the disintegration of an asteroid during an atmospheric entry air burst.A large number of deaths were recorded in historical Chinese accounts of the meteor shower, but have never been confirmed by 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. Researchers have also noted the general proximity of the Ch'ing-yang event to the last major Australian tsunami which occurred approximately 1500 CE.".