yeah, we will be able to see that thing on the way out of the solar system. it's quite big, but is not going to come close to colliding with anything

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seems suspicious. it's several kilometers across

not trusting the government and paying attention to what space sensor projects are reporting doesn't necessarily come into conflict. there has been a lot of hype about the doom of impactors but reality is they happen rarely. the most frequent cause of the largest number of big ones is from rocks condensed out of micronova and superflare discharges, and it takes up to 1000 years for them to form big enough to be a problem, and they are football sized mostly

keep in mind that if one of these things is big enough it will also have its path affected by the fields of the sun and all the planets as it passes. more often than not this is going to cause it to pass between. the distances are enormous, compared to the objects that they might hit.

there is also occasional higher frequencies of them such as when the taurids do their orbit and some other ones, but most of those are tiny.

also, it's quite probable that this one is just passing by and isn't in an orbit around the sun at all. stuff does get blown away from its orbit and get lost in space, usually by big solar flares or similar.