206P/Barnard-Boattini was the first comet to be discovered by photographic means.^[1] The American astronomer Edward Emerson Barnard did so on the night of October 13, 1892.

After this apparition this comet was lost.

L. Neslu?an (Astronomical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences) suggests that 14P/Wolf and this comet are siblings which stem from a common parent comet.^[2]

This comet was accidentally rediscovered on October 7, 2008 by Andrea Boattini in the course of Mt. Lemmon Survey.^[3] The comet has made 20 revolutions since 1892 and passed 0.3 - 0.4 AU from Jupiter in 1922, 1934 and 2005.^[4][5]

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