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Assyrian clay tablet points to 'Sodom and Gomorrah' asteroid | The Register: "The 'Planisphere' tablet (see pic) - inscribed around 700 BC - was unearthed by Henry Layard in the remains of the library of the Assyrian royal palace at Nineveh, close to modern-day Mosul, Iraq. It's a copy of the night diary of a Sumerian astronomer containing drawings of constellations and 'known constellation names', but it required modern computer tech to finally unravel its exact meaning.
Alan Bond, Managing Director of Reaction Engines Ltd and Mark Hempsell, Senior Lecturer in Astronautics at Bristol University, subjected the Planisphere to a programme which 'can simulate trajectories and reconstruct the night sky thousands of years ago'. They discovered that it described 'events in the sky before dawn on the 29 June 3123 BC', with half of it noting 'planet positions and cloud cover, the same as any other night'.
The other half, however, records an object 'large enough for its shape to be noted even though it is still in space' and tracks its trajectory relative to the stars, which 'to an error better than one degree is consistent with an impact at K�fels'."
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