Pluto is ridiculously cool. Small body research is at the forefront of getting a handle on the conditions of the early Solar System. Between discoveries made by the Rosetta mission [1], Dawn's visit to Vesta and Ceres [2], and the incredible discovery of rings around Chariklo [3], we are really in a golden age at the moment.
New Horizons has a lot more in store, not in the least because we know that there are at least two other moons in the system: Styx [4] and Kerberos [5] (discovered by my advisor Mark Showalter [6]). There's been a concerted effort to search for rings around Pluto too, not in the least to be able to assess the safe passage of New Horizons through the system.
All I can say is don't blink, you're not gonna wanna miss this!
You've gotta see him in action; he gives great talks. Here's a recording of his SETI talk on the discovery of Styx and Kerberos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6t51YPOuSA (I worked on Uranus' moon Mab, which is mentioned at the start of the talk).
If you get the chance to see him live, I'd definitely recommend it. Unfortunately, he's very busy, so even during my PhD I haven't had many chances to sit down with him.
The coolest thing to me is that Mark is a dynamicist actually, but has such a deep understanding of instrumentation and image processing that he can attack new discoveries from both sides. Good example of why it serves to have many tools in your toolbox.
New Horizons has a lot more in store, not in the least because we know that there are at least two other moons in the system: Styx [4] and Kerberos [5] (discovered by my advisor Mark Showalter [6]). There's been a concerted effort to search for rings around Pluto too, not in the least to be able to assess the safe passage of New Horizons through the system.
All I can say is don't blink, you're not gonna wanna miss this!
[1] http://rosetta.esa.int/
[2] http://dawn.jpl.nasa.gov/
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rings_of_Chariklo
[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styx_(moon)
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerberos_(moon)
[6] http://www.seti.org/users/mark-showalter