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Originally Posted by glend
There is so little light out there that you will never have a hope of imaging it, especially if it is a dark object. Inference based on the behavious of known objects is probably the best choice for the forseeable future. Of course if New Horizons could be retasked and sent along the inferred orbit there might be a chance to get some data, after all it's already out there.
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That's if by random chance new horizons is headed towards it. Until this hypothesised object has an exact known location, it's just as likely that new horizons is actually further away from it that the earth is.