== Orbit ==Astronomer Brian Marsden of the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory calculated that Comet Lulin reached its perihelion on January 10, 2009, at a distance of 113 million miles (182 million kilometers) from the Sun.
Samo odkritje pa pripada 19-letnemu Ye Quanzhi (葉泉志) (Univerza Sun Yat-sen, Ljudska republika Kitajska), ki je na podlagi treh Linovih fotografij prepoznal novo telo.