[fluffy]

the Oort Cloud, a distant region of the solar system known for packing billions...

It continually amazes me what passes for scientific journalism these days. "Known"? There's no evidence that the cloud even exists, it's just a hypothesis based on a number of assumptions about comet formation. Unobserved, unmeasured, but reported as "known".

[Theophilus]

The comet will have a unique spin on it that will make it seem significantly more significant than it really is.

[wbarmy]

Should have read more postings before I did mine. You are 100% correct, even the NASA website on the Oort cloud has to admit there is zero evidence for this. Especially since there are really great methods for measuring tiny deviations of exo-planets, but none of these have seen anything where the cloud is supposed to be. No occlusions, lensing images, momentary eclipses of stars, nothing.