Social media abuzz about approaching comet, but astronomer says it’s nothing unusual

Social media has been full of theories about an object heading toward Earth , but what is it really?

Mike Narlock is head of astronomy at the Cranbrook Institute of Science near Detroit. He says speculation about the interstellar comet started with one astronomer.

“ Where it’s getting all of this undue attention is there was an astronomer — or is an astronomer — out of Harvard who, for reasons beyond understanding, suggested that some of the things that we’re seeing it do are not natural, that it’s accelerating in a way that it shouldn’t be,” Narlock said. “ But all of the evidence points that everything that we’re seeing can be absolutely described by r