Oh, come on, does no one do any background investigation?

On searching Google, "Kofels Impact" is flooded with refs to the above, so excluding "Sumerian", "Tablet" and "Bristol" (for that is where Messrs. Hempsall and Bond are situated) reduces the hits from over 18K to less than 500. Those show a number of academic refs that document the controversy about the Kofels 'impact' as being an impact at all. Many are to academic journals to which one must have subscription, though some allow the abstract to be read, and say that the alternative is an earthquake-driven, 'mega'-landslide, with heating caused by friction. There's no crater there, that's for sure.

Mr.Hempsell is Sen.Lect in Space Technology (http://www.bristol.ac.uk/aerospace/c...ff/mrhempsell/)
He has an MSc in Astronomy and Astronautics, with an engineering background, in the same projects as:
Alan Bond is MD of Reaction Engines Ltd. http://www.reactionengines.co.uk/directors.html with an engineering background.
With respect, neither is an archeologist.
They have clearly given much thought and research to this project, that I cannot criticise.

This is another theory to add to the respectable, but untested theories about possible explanations for a mythical and moral icon.
See: http://www.archaeology.org/9607/newsbriefs/sodom.html
and
http://www.ankerberg.org/Articles/_P...e/SC3W1003.pdf

It is of interest that the latter reference dates, from archeological evidence, the destruction of the presumed S&G at 2300-2350 BC, nearly 1000 years after the date attributed to the "Kofel asteroid" of 3123BC, which was over 1000 years before the "rather precise" Biblical date of 2030BC.

John