31st Annual Meeting of the DPS, October 1999 Session 17. Some early results were given in Biver et al. CS species were detected through one or several of their rotational transitions.
Molecular abundances are within the range of values measured in other comets.
This value is close to that measured in comet Hale-Bopp near perihelion and twice higher than that inferred in comet Hyakutake. Observations of HNC in comet Hale-Bopp and chemical modelling have suggested that HNC could be the product of coma chemistry. This new measurement in a moderatly active comet should provide further constraints on the origin of HNC in comets.