Pluto too early in V (fwd)

[David Hosford]

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Date: Sun, 6 Nov 1994 21:30:58 -0500 (EST)
From: David Hosford <dhosford at acpub.duke.edu>
To: Mailing List Pynchon <pynchon-l at sfu.ca>
Subject: too early Pluto in V

	When Mondaugen is at Foppl's siege party in 1922
[chp. 9, V, pp. 229-279 of Perennial Library's 1986 pb version],
he observes 9 planets in Foppl's planetarium [p. 239].
However, the real-life Clyde Tombaugh did not make the photographic
comparisons that led to Pluto's discovery until February,
1930.
	Given Pynchon's superb descriptions and detailed
histories, is this a purposeful error? A misremembering
by a much later Mondaugen? Or a mistake?  Any ideas out
there in the Zone?
			-- David Hosford