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martinclayton 2 days ago

In a thread elsewhere I saw "Interstellar Objects in the Solar System: 1. Isotropic Kinematics from the Gaia Early Data Release 3" (https://arxiv.org/pdf/2103.03289) mentioned.

In there, one estimate of the number of these objects is

   Nisc <~ 7.2 × 10−5 AU−3
Which (my, probably wrong, calc) implies roughly one inside the orbital volume at the radius of Saturn's orbit at any time.