On July 10, 1992, the Giotto spacecraft encountered a second comet, na
mely, P/Grigg-Skjellerup. Despite the small production rate of this co
met (approximately 2 orders of magnitude smaller than that of P/Halley
and 1 order of magnitude smaller than that of P/Giacobini-Zinner) the
plasma flow showed several distinct flow transitions. We have applied
theoretical models, previously developed to explain the existence and
location of the flow boundaries at comets P/Giacobini-Zinner and P/Ha
lley to this new data set for comet P/Grigg-Skjellerup. The observed b
ow shock crossings are used to evaluate the production rate of the com
etary neutrals. Using this production rate, the position of the collis
ionopause and the ionopause are estimated. The observed location of th
e magnetic pile-up boundary corresponds well to the theoretical calcul
ations. We also find the reason that a magnetic field-free region was
not encountered was because the ionopause, while being sharp, was insi
de the spacecraft trajectory which had an estimated closest approach d
istance greater than 120 km. Finally we have used the observed spatial
profile of the solar wind magnetic field together with a simple one-d
imensional, multispecies chemical model to calculate the radial densit
y profiles of the H2O group ions outside the bow shock. Comparison of
the calculated total H2O group ion density profile with observations i
ndicates a good fit in the inner region where the H2O+ ion dominates.
While the corresponding fit in the outer region, where the O+ ion domi
nates, becomes progressively less satisfactory with increasing cometoc
entric distance, it is noted that the observations themselves are beli
eved to be less reliable at these large distances.