To fully appreciate this column, you need to remember the movie “Independence Day,” and the song lyric, “It’s the end of the world as we know it.”

The interstellar body known as 31/Atlas, a huge object that is one of only three visitors to our neighborhood of space that is known to have originated from outside the solar system, will soon be making a pass near Earth.

The internet is having a field day with this object, which reached its closest point to the sun on Oct. 29. Scientists say it is larger, faster and probably older than any interstellar object ever seen. I read one article that said it is the size of Manhattan island.

Internet conspiracy theorists claim it is an alien spacecraft. Some rumors say the James Webb Telescope has detected signs of life. While all that is wild specu

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