Posted on 02/28/2026 4:05:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv
The year was 1490. The location, Qingyang, China. It was a spring evening in this central Chinese city when something strange began to occur in the sky above. For one, there was a recently discovered comet that was coming into view: Comet C-1490 Y1. But this comet pales in comparison to the really strange event that was about to occur.
The Meteor Shower That Killed 10,000 People | 19:18
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Thanks for posting, I had never read about this incident before!
Interestingly, the strike in Tilden Illinois is almost located along the 38th Parallel, where a an almost linear series of meteor strikes occurred. (And a volcano or two...Tilden is at 38.2 something.)
"The 38th parallel structures, also known as the 38th parallel lineament,[1] are a series of seven circular depressions or deformations stretching 700 kilometres (430 mi) across southern Illinois and Missouri and into eastern Kansas, in the United States, at a latitude of roughly 38 degrees north. Estimated at 300 million years old, three are believed to be impact events from meteorites, but other structures are possibly remnants of volcanos.
Here is additional Site for other impact craters within the U.S. Impact Craters U.S.
Never happened....
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The Tunguska event was a tiny primordial black hole.
It was a rock.
That’s funny. Great nzme for a dog.
If this were ancient Greece, then, Jim Bacchus.
June 2, 2016. This is what I saw in the Eastern sky in Phoenix Az. . I actually heard it but I thought it was just noisy neighbors. They were able to find pieces of this meteor in a forest on Indian land. Analysis revealed it was related to the Chelyabinsk meteor. Somewhere out there is a big rock with chunks of it knocked off and falling down on Earth
Nice pic!
Thanks! interesting.
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