It could, since the comet-like version of Venus was running around for a long while before the orbits crossed. To make the so-called Ammizaduga tablets’ observations of Venus visibility work requires different orbits for either Venus, or Earth, or both; the conventional method of making them work is to throw out the observations which don’t fit current expectation.
That the encounter of this asteroid with the Earth is thought to have taken place 7000 years ago is based on retrocalculation, and probably doesn’t have a unique solution in the math.
The Sumerians were busy inventing writing 5,000 years ago, but they were by that time already well practiced at ACCOUNTING.
If there are anomalies in the tables, the fact the information came from 5000 years go rather than 3700 years ago may be a clue to determining whether they were watching Venus or a chunk of rock.
if this hunk is Inkydu, we're really in the grove, eh!