Loftwings and Demons

I thought this comet discovery from last year from this linked article was pretty cool:

A gigantic comet is actually the largest ever seen, new observations by the Hubble Space Telescope confirm.  Stretching about 80 miles (129 kilometers) across, the nucleus (or solid center) of the comet, known as C/2014 UN271 (Bernardinelli-Bernstein), is larger than the state of Rhode Island, according to a statement from NASA. And it's about 50 times larger than the average comet core.

This is the largest recorded comet size so far!

 This comet is currently far from Earth, zooming along at about 22,000 mph (35,405 kph). Comet Bernardinelli-Bernstein has been falling toward the sun for over 1 million years. But don't worry; the closest it will get to us, according to NASA, is about 1 billion miles(1.6 billion km km), which it won't even reach until 2031.

We'll hopefully be able to get a more precise measurement of the object's size in 2031.  The size estimates of objects like this typically have to be  based on expected albedo.  And while scientists can make a decently good guess  of an object's size from that, an object being brighter or darker than expected changes that value.

This comet, being so far from Earth and originating in the farthest-flung reaches of our solar system, is thought to travel on a 3-million-year-long elliptical orbit around the sun. Scientists think that it might travel about half a light-year away from the sun in the farthest parts of its orbit.

 I've seen a number of different values cited for how long the comet's orbit takes.  I imagine its currently just a rough estimate like the size, though I don't know which of the stated orbital periods that have been  cited are actually correct.

At any rate, this could be a great opportunity to study an Oort Cloud object.  I wonder if anyone will send a probe to get a close-up look?