Montaigne and Messier and finally identified as periodic in 1826 by WilhelmvonBiela. It was subsequently observed to split in two and has not been seen
Baron WilhelmvonBiela (German: Wilhelm Freiherr vonBiela; March 19, 1782 – February 18, 1856) was a German-Austrian military officer and amateur astronomer
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to his students. It was here that he discovered three comets (2P/Encke, 3D/Biela, C/1807 R1) and published his research in the Berliner Astronomisches Jahrbuch
close pass by the Earth had made it bright enough for discovery. Otto Wilhelmvon Struve reported that the comet was visible to the naked eye at the end