Mike Brown - the discoverer - and other researchers referred colloquially to the two as 'Xena' and 'Gabrielle', after Lucy Lawless' TV character and her sidekick . Since these didn't follow the international naming conventions and were thus likely to not be approved, they proposed 'Eris' and 'Dysnomia': a minor Greek god and her daughter, thus following the accepted protocols.
'Dysnomia' -- means "Lawlessness" :)
Eris (in the center) ande Dysnomia (on the left) taken by the Hubble Space Telecople.
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