This topic submitted by Matt Beversdorf (beversma@muohio.edu) on 1/31/02.
I just saw a USA Today newspaper article this week (I'm not sure what day it was) on a new mission to Pluto, mentioning how hard it is to observe the weather/atmosphere on pluto. It also discussed a little bit about the debate on whether pluto can be considered a planet. You might want to check it out.