I normally ignore conspiracy nonsense, but the world is weird and people are scared so: There is no asteroid or comet on a collision course with Earth right now. (1/7)
I know this because anyone finding anything remotely interesting shouts about it in order to get others in different parts of the world to look. The sky is there for all of us - there are no secrets in space. (2/n)
The specific nonsense going around now seems to suggest that Comet ATLAS - which might have been bright but seems to have disintegrated over the last few days - might hit. It won't. It's closest approach is 72 million miles! (3/n)
And no, it can't disintegrate and have bits fly off to hit us. That's not how orbits work. If it disintegrates there will be lots of debris moving on more or less the same orbit. There is zero chance of it affecting Earth (4/n)
