However, it was the 19-year-old Ye Quanzhi (葉泉志) from Sun Yat-sen University in China who identified the new object from three of the photographs taken by Lin.
== Odkritje ==Komet je 11. julija 2007 prvi fotografiral astronom Lin Chi-Sheng (林啟生) s 16 palčnim daljnogledom v Observatoriju Lulin (Tajvan).