Celestial / Comet

768AD (Spr.)

Event #5011: A broom star appears in the northeast during spring

Stable URL: http://cof.quantumfuturegroup.org/events/5011

Geographical sites:

  • Korea (click here to focus in map) (see also GeoNames #1873107)
    Geonames_icon Democratic People’s Republic of Korea independent political entity Geocontext: Asia/Pyongyang
  • Korea (click here to focus in map) (see also GeoNames #1835841)
    Geonames_icon Republic of Korea independent political entity Geocontext: Asia/Seoul

Citations:

Text #8570

Yeomans. Comets

768 Spring; Korea.

A broom star comet was seen in the northeast.

Ho (278)

Text #1444

Kronk. Cometography: A Catalog of Comets. Series: Cometography. Vol. 1
[p. 119]

The Chronicle of Silla, contained in the Korean text Samguk Sagi (1145), provides the only details on this object.

It says a “broom star” appeared in the northeast during the spring of 768. The location indicates it may have been in the morning sky.

Sources: Samguk Sagi (1145), Ho Peng Yoke (1962), p. 171.

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