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 believed to be the parent body of the Quadrantids meteor shower.

Orbit John Russell Hind, Benjamin Peirce, and Ichiro Hasegawa made the initial orbital calculations for the comet, which all resulted in a parabolic trajectory around the Sun. In 2009, Kyu-Won Lee and his colleagues calculated that C/1490 Y1 is a Jupiter-family comet with a 5.3-year orbit around the Sun, with the asteroid might even be related to it.

See also (196256) 2003 EH1

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