After 1908 the comet became an unobservable lost comet, but on December 7, 2001, an object was found by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) program, and confirmed by previous images from September 10 and October 17 as being the same comet.
In 1908, the comet became undetectable, but its reappearance on December 7, 2001, was confirmed through earlier images from September 10 and October 17 by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) program.