Clay tablet identified as asteroid that destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah

So, Sodom and Gomorrah was near Austria?

I'll take that with a pinch of salt.

As it travelled close to the ground it would have left a trail of destruction from supersonic shock waves and then slammed into the Earth with a cataclysmic impact.

I think you're under-estimating the size of the area between Austria and the middle-east. That and the effect of gravity.

Also, this story is nothing new and no impact site exists.

http://www.centauri-dreams.org/?p=1809

If Austria got hit by an object 1Km in size, you'd know it, it would have the destructive force of 200MT. This is the damage a 45 meter meteorite will do:

http://www.mreclipse.com/Observatory/Crater/full/Crater87-103w.JPG

Nice theory, shame about the facts.

Yes, I do:

in fact, that many geologists think no impact was involved. Even more questionable is Bond and Hempsell’s suggestion that energy from the fireball traveled as a back plume out over the Mediterannean, re-entering the atmosphere in ways consistent with the destruction of the very Sodom and Gomorrah Clarke cites. Says Hempsell:

Do you have any idea what a 200MT impact crater would be like?

You just can't hide that sort of thing.

A low incoming angle of six degrees would explain the lack of a crater at Köfels,

Its still a 200MT impact, nothing short of the hand of God is going to explain the lack of a crater.

Its 13,000 Hiroshimas at once. You're talking 3rd degree burns over 300 miles from the impact site. We're talking about an event as big as Krakatoa.

On 27 August four enormous explosions took place at 05:30, 06:44, 10:02, and 10:41 local time. The explosions were so violent that they were heard 3,500 km (2,200 mi) away in Perth, Western Australia and the Indian Ocean island of Rodrigues near Mauritius, 4,800 km (3,000 mi) away, where they were thought to be cannonfire from a nearby ship.^[1][2]:22 Each was accompanied by very large tsunamis, which are believed to have been over 30 meters (100 ft) high in places. A large area of the Sunda Strait and a number of places on the Sumatran coast were affected by pyroclastic flows from the volcano.

The pressure wave generated by the colossal final explosion radiated from Krakatoa at 1,086 km/h (675 mph).^[3] It was so powerful that it shattered the eardrums of sailors on ships in the Sunda Strait^[4] and caused a spike of more than two and half inches of mercury in pressure gauges attached to gasometers in the Jakarta gasworks, sending them off the scale.^[5] The pressure wave radiated across the globe and was recorded on barographs all over the world, which continued to register it up to 5 days after the explosion. Barograph recordings show that the shockwave from the final explosion reverberated around the globe 7 times in total.^[2] Ash was propelled to a height of 80 km (50 mi).

Excellent article, Andy-534371. Thanks for sharing!