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C/1490 Y1
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C/1490 Y1 is a comet that was recorded and observed across East Asia, particularly China and Korea, from December 1490 to February 1491. It is the parent body of the Quadrantids meteor shower.
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John Russell Hind,[5] Benjamin Peirce, and Ichiro Hasegawa[6] made the initial orbital calculations for the comet, which all resulted in a parabolic trajectory around the Sun.[1]
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