It is now thought that the Great Comet of 1882 is a fragment of X/1106 C1, and that Comet du Toit (C/1945 X1) and Comet Ikeya–Seki (C/1965 S1) are two of its sister fragments.
Razpad velikega kometa iz leta 1882 je to njegovo teorijo potrdil za zelo verjetno.