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Nick James
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A response to this question posted on comets-ml pointed to a Cloudy Nights discussion from last month which had a plausible explanation which was that the orbit of 13P was better known than 12P so it was very quickly recognised as a recovery when Brooks found it on the return.

https://groups.io/g/comets-ml/message/32292
https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/920186-the-name-of-the-comet-13polbers-problem/#entry13436144