On more thing on the asteroid, the team from JPL working in conjunction with others calculated that an asteroid traveling at 35,000 mph hitting the open ocean 13,000 feet deep would have created a series of tsunamis, the first almost a thousand feet in hight. Now that would be a killer to say the least.
Anyways check this out,its a synopsis of "The Universe" version. Heres a sample.
In an article in the NYTimes on Nov 14, scientist Dallas Abbott has identified the site of a large asteroid impact crater (the Burckle Crater) off of the island of Madagascar that struck the earth around 2800 BC. This asteroid landed in the seabed, and sent a 600-900 foot high wall of water - a megatsunami - around the Indian Ocean, impacting land as far away as Australia, and crashing onto the coast of Africa, up the Red Sea and Persian Gulf, and quite possibly into the Mediterranean Sea as well.
Origin of the Flood legends? Asteroid, 2800BC in Religion in History Channel
