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OBSERVATIONS of Comet Kohoutek have revealed the presence of CH3CN (ref. 1) and HCN (W. Huebner, private communication) in the coma and of H2O+ in the tail2; although predicted, H2O was not observed3.
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MENDIS, D., IP, WH. Behaviour of Comet Kohoutek (1973f). Nature 249, 536–537 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/249536a0
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