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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. [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]
The most powerful meteor air burst in the modern era was the 1908 Tunguska event. During this event a stony meteoroid about 50–60 m (160–200 ft) in size [ 1 ] [ 2 ] : p. 178 exploded at an altitude of 5–10 km (16,000–33,000 ft) over a sparsely populated forest in Siberia .
March or April – 1490 Qingyang event, a presumed meteor shower or air burst over Qingyang in Ming dynasty China, said to have caused casualties. July 4 – Battle of Bonefield: John Corvinus is defeated by the Kingdom of Hungary. July 13 – John of Kastav finishes a cycle of frescoes in the Holy Trinity Church, Hrastovlje (modern-day ...
March or April – 1490 Qingyang event, a presumed meteor shower or air burst over Qingyang in Ming dynasty China, said to have caused casualties. July 4 – Battle of Bonefield: John Corvinus is defeated by the Kingdom of Hungary. July 13 – John of Kastav finishes a cycle of frescoes in the Holy Trinity Church, Hrastovlje (modern-day ...
This is a list of asteroids that have impacted Earth after discovery and orbit calculation that predicted the impact in advance. As of December 2024, all of the asteroids with predicted impacts were under 5 m (16 ft) in size that were discovered just hours before impact, and burned up in the atmosphere as meteors.
Qingyang is the easternmost prefecture-level division of Gansu and is thus sometimes referred to as "Longdong" (Chinese: 陇东; pinyin: Lǒng dōng).It forms an administrative peninsula, as it is surrounded, on all sides but the south, by Shaanxi and Ningxia.
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An air burst or airburst is the detonation of an explosive device such as an anti-personnel artillery shell or a nuclear weapon in the air instead of on contact with the ground or target. The principal military advantage of an air burst over a ground burst is that the energy from the explosion, including any shell fragments , is distributed ...