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A very rough calculation would suggested that the cylinder that goes from our solar system to Proxima Centauri contains 5000 similarly sized objects moving at the same speed:

1 object crossing the solar system plane every 5 years at 60km/s

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Proxima Centauri is approximately 5 light years away

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there are `speed of light / 60km/s` objects in the cylinder.



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