A fanciful theory of
astronomy credits the
Babylonians with witnessing a planetary
fender-bender, in which two planets collided, destroying one (Tiamat) and sending the other off into interstellar space (
Marduk).
The Babylonians then supposedly incorporated this extraterrestrial event into their mythology.
Like the Loch Ness Monster and the survival of carcharocles megalodon, this is considered crap by mainstream scientists.