  Next year, 2015, the New Horizons spacecraft will have a close encounter with
Pluto. In the present study we discuss some possibilities regarding what the
spacecraft may encounter during its approach to Pluto. Among them we should
include: the presence of geological activity due to heat generated by tides;
the unlikely presence of an intrinsic magnetic field; the possibility of a
plasmasphere and a plasmapause; the position of an ionopause; the existence of
an ionospheric trans-terminator flow similar to that at Venus and Mars; and the
presence of a Magnus force that produces a deflection of Pluto plasma wake.
This deflection oscillates up and down in its orbit around the sun.
