Hrmph. If they must be dwarf planets, should they not at least have dwarf names?
Instead of Eris and Dysnomia couldn't they have gone with Ori and Nori or Þráinn & Þórinn, or go with the real classics Nýi and Niði!
Dwarf names for dwarf planets!
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Real dwarves, please, not some Disneyfied parodies.
This is serious, dammit!
There's a neat post on naming here: http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/003581.html
The best part, in my opinion, is the revelation that Charon and Dysnomia are named, partially, in honor of the discoverers' wives.