An magnitude 17 object, having at first the appearance of an asteroid, was discovered on April 18, 2008 by the LINEAR monitoring telescope. The cometary nature was revealed by confirmation observations made by E Reina (Masquefa Observatory), E Guido and G Sostero (Mayhill Observatory, ), J Mr. Aymami (Observatorio Carmelita, Tiana), R. Apitzsch (Wildberg) and R. Naves (Observatorio Montcabre).