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.
The comet became invisible after 1908, but on December 7, 2001, it was reidentified as a single celestial object by the Lincoln Near-Earth Asteroid Research (LINEAR) program, based on prior observations from September 10 and October 17.