Have Asteroids been involved in Earth’s history?

Then the third angel sounded his trumpet, and a great star burning like a torch fell from heaven and landed on a third of the rivers and on the springs of water. 11The name of the star isWormwood. A third of the waters turned bitter like wormwood oil, and many people died from thebitter waters. 12Then the fourth angel sounded his trumpet, and a third of the sun and moon and stars were struck. A third of the stars were darkened, a third of the day was without light, and a third of the night as well.…

— Revelation 8

It sounds hyperbolic, the sky is literally falling…but could something like this have been responsible for the Chicago fire, the punishments of Egypt, and even the great flood of Noah?