Sounds weird doesn't it? well unfortunately people are gonna have to get used to it. It is the official name of the "dwarf" planet 2003UB313 nicknamed "Xena". It's moon nicknamed "Gabrielle" has also been officially named "Dysnomia".
Eris is named after the Greek goddess of chaos and strife. I guess the chaos part is somehow appropriate. Considering it was the planet that kicked Pluto out stripping it of it's planetary status. Thereby forcing everyone to re-write new astronomy books, which we will eventually have to go out and buy lol.
Here is a Yahoo article with more details:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060914/ap_on_sc/dwarf_planet_5
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