It only jives with the myth because you choose to try and align one interpretation of the story to an imaginary enhancement of a process that not only is 4 billion years old, but likely took many millions of years. Then to make it work you have to add ancient aliens. Weak. It makes a better movie script than science or reality.
The make up of the wet/dry asteroids is very different. If the asteroids that pummeled the earth were from the inner belt, that part is dry and wouldn't provide any water for the earth. It is the outer belt that is wet and is theorized to have contributed water to the earth.
You don't have the water "based" asteroids in the inner belt.
I didn't add ancient aliens, the people who gave us these myths said people from the sky taught them. Asteroids didn't pummel the Earth, they are the debris from the collisions between the proto-Earth (Tiamat) and God's winds and this research says a half dozen parent bodies are their source. That jives with the myth, it identifies several "winds" used by God to vanquish the proto-Earth.
Now if asteroids and meteorites had numerous sources which is what we'd expect if that material was more primitive, more pristine than (minor) planets, then that would not jive with the myth. Of course once the asteroids came into existence during the celestial battle between Tiamat and Marduk they'd be hitting the planets etc (just look at the Moon for evidence of that battle), but they were released from a very small number of larger parent bodies.
That means the asteroids and meteorites could have been produced by the interaction of 2 planets and their moons. The resulting collisions produced debris that can be traced back to a half dozen bodies. Thats important, the myth's credibility depends on the science.
As for delivering water to the Earth via asteroids, the mechanism involves a migration of Jupiter into and back out of the asteroid belt region. The myth describes a chaotic period when the planets encroached upon Tiamat so I wouldn't rule out migrating planets but the research I've seen claims the Earth formed with water, it was wet from the start. But our water formed at the asteroid belt. That means the Earth formed at the asteroid belt and acquired this orbit closer to the sun.
Maybe thats why Genesis says the sun and moon came to dominate the sky on the 4th day, earlier events happened at the asteroid belt where both sun and moon were dim. Gen 1:2 describes a water world covered in darkness before God's wind hovered over the water, and then, let there be light - impact. Night and day was the result. We know what causes night and day, we're spinning and its because of a collision.
The grand tack theory - Jupiter's migration in and out of the asteroid belt region - tries to explain certain phenomenon like our water. But researchers are also using Jupiter as the mechanism for the late heavy bombardment ~4+ bya. Something's wrong with that theory, Jupiter supposedly moved into the belt dispersing water laden asteroids to supply Earth with its water. But our water is older than the late heavy bombardment, its older than the planet. And how did Jupiter migrate twice into the asteroids and why didn't it clean the area the first time? Something else caused the late heavy bombardment. The link I posted in the OP describes 7-11 minor planets up to 600 miles across hitting the Earth.
Berzerker, you should absolutely send this and every other article you've ever subjected us to here, to the planetary scientists who are trying to figure this out. Just think... give them the information and your ancient aliens notions, and it'll be all wrapped up by Tuesday next week.
Then they can write new astronomy textbooks and pseudoscience will win the day over real science.
After all, since your own country's leader is determined to drag your country back to the Dark Ages in so many ways, why not be patriotic and help him?
The experts could have saved some time by reading myth... It wasn't too long ago they were telling us the world was too hot and molten to have water, thats why they named the first 1/2 billion or so years the Hadean. Now they're telling us water was here from the beginning. Welcome to Gen 1:2
And now they're telling us all those asteroids and meteorites came from a half dozen parent bodies? Maybe they're the same bodies that slammed into the Earth 4+ bya. Coincidence? Consider that coincidence... The science says all that debris flying around out there came from ~6 larger bodies and the science says ~6 larger bodies struck the Earth around 4 billion years ago. Thats one helluva coincidence.
