What Have the Astronomers Done With Pluto Now?

An article from the LiveScience Blog called "Revealing Pluto's Secrets: A Dress Rehearsal" by Robert Roy Britt talks about how Astronomers will practice a Run Through with the New Horizons Spacecraft next year as the spacecraft flies on its way to meet and study Pluto in 2015.

There's also a nice discussion of all the renaming of Pluto that Astrologers are getting upset about. About Pluto's recent re-naming as a "Plutoid":

“We shouldn’t get too hung up on definitions,” he said of the IAU’s “plutoid” plan. “We define categories to help us figure out the universe, to put things in boxes. But there are limitations to that kind of approach. Nature doesn’t necessarily fit our definitions. You’ll never have a perfect system."

Link to the article:

http://www.livescience.com/blogs/2008/06/11/revealing-plutos-secrets-a-dress-rehearsal/