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Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by jonathanlb on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @12:49PM (#28606949)
Some time ago, I heard of another theory for the Sodom and Gomorrah story:

An asteroid clipped a mountain in the Alps, causing a landslide in Köfels (but no crater). The asteroid's trajectory had a low angle, which made the mushroom cloud arc over the Mediterranean and over the Levant, raining down fire and such. This asteroid was actually recorded by Assyrian scribes on a clay tablet, but its trajectory wasn't plotted until relatively recently (2008-ish).

https://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2008/212017945233.html

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Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by codesnik on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @01:06PM (#28607144)
air resistance is too high on the height where asteroid can clip a mountain, for something to reach levant. it’d explode right there. But I could believe in asteroid fragmented much higher
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Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by pythonlion on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @05:56PM (#28610499)
nice article. but 700 BC is my be more fitted to another biblical story. sorry I forgot exactly which one but there is a story about a battle that ended when god rained fire on one of the sides
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Re:A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Ag... by chrismorgan on Tuesday September 21, 2021 @07:14PM (#28611191)
You’re probably thinking of Joshua 10:11, but that’s quite some hundreds of years before 700 BC, which is more the time of Hezekiah.
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