V.V. (12) "nine planets" ???

jbor jbor at bigpond.com
Sat Mar 24 15:42:50 CST 2001


Foppl's planetarium has "the nine planets and their moons". But it's still
only 1922! Pluto wasn't discovered until 1930 (by Clyde Tombaugh, if memory
serves), though its existence had been "predicted" beforehand according to
my dictionary.

Q. Is this one of those notorious Pynchonian "mistakes"?



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