C.Y. 130 Parsonsburg meteor

On 18 Fary, C.Y. 130, a meteor impacted the north side of the town of Parsonsburg, which was situated on the Rockies River in east-central Notosa, in present-day Rockieton. The town had been founded as a Taatiklarian colonial outpost in C.Y. 76, and its population gradually grew to about nine thousand by the time of the meteor impact, making it one of the largest cities in eastern Notosa at the time.

The meteor that would impact Parsonsburg was first spotted on 16 Juary, C.Y. 128, slightly over one cypriot year before its impact. It was recognized to be on a collision course with Cyprus, but the location of its impact was completely unknown until more precise measurements were taken in early C.Y. 129 by astronomer Alakina Lomell, who determined that the impact would occur somewhere on the planet's Eastern Hemisphere. By the day of impact, the measurements had narrowed down to east-central Notosa, and the entire population of Parsonsburg and nearby towns had been evacuated.

The meteor directly hit Parsonsburg's north side, nearly leveling the entire town, but only four died, due to the mandatory evacuation orders that had been in effect for several cypriot months.

Parsonsburg was slowly rebuilt after the rubble was cleared. Today, it has a population of about four thousand, about half of what it had before the impact. Meteor impacts were not terribly unusual on Cyprus due to the high level of dust in Tau Ceti's star system, but this was the only event that had a major effect on a highly populated place in Cyprus' history as of C.Y. 251.