So it's roughly in the closest 200-year period out of 28,000 years. That means it spends 99.3% of it's orbit further away than now, and thus harder to find.
Simplistic odds would seem to imply that there's over a hundred more dwarf planets just like this but further away, so we just haven't seen them.
I really hope we can get some more sensitive and wider telescopes to look deeper into the Oort cloud. At those distances, sunlight is comparable to a full moon or less, surface temperatures are only tens of kelvin. And yet they're still less than 1% of the distance to the next star.
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So it's roughly in the closest 200-year period out of 28,000 years. That means it spends 99.3% of it's orbit further away than now, and thus harder to find.
Simplistic odds would seem to imply that there's over a hundred more dwarf planets just like this but further away, so we just haven't seen them.
I really hope we can get some more sensitive and wider telescopes to look deeper into the Oort cloud. At those distances, sunlight is comparable to a full moon or less, surface temperatures are only tens of kelvin. And yet they're still less than 1% of the distance to the next star.