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D. K. Lynch, R. W. Russell, Aerospace Corporation; S. J. Bus and W. Golisch, University of Hawaii; and T. Harrison, New Mexico State University, report further infrared spectroscopy of this nova (cf. IAUC 8386) using SpeX (range 0.8-2.5 microns) at the Infrared Telescope Facility on Aug. 13.3 UT, when the nova's magnitude was K about 6.8. The spectrum was dominated by H I emission lines with a Doppler width (FWHM) of about 3000 km/s; the profiles showed a broad and a narrow (about 1000 km/s) component and were fairly symmetric. Also present were the Lyman-beta-fluoresced O I lines and weak He I line emission at 1.0830 and 2.0581 microns. There was no evidence of thermal emission from dust at longer wavelengths or of the CO first overtone at 2.3 microns. With a decline rate of 2 visual magnitudes in seven days (based on the AAVSO light curve), this rapidly fading nova should begin showing coronal lines in the next few weeks.