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Everybody, and primarily the scientists. Early on, one of the first
names was "Yogi," and it turns out the rock actually looks like a bear
profile in the upper left-hand corner of the rock as you see it from the
Lander. And "Barnacle Bill" was number two, and that's the first rock we
got right up to, and it was kind of like a barnacle in texture. After that,
there was no formal process in place, so people would suggest names by
writing the names on post-it notes and placing them onto this very large
poster which took up most of this conference room. There was an approval
process, where someone was named the official rock naming czar, and they
would reject any personal names of people, and the names would have to be
generic and not commercial. Naming the rocks turned out to be very useful,
because it's much more intuitive to refer to a named rock than a numbered
rock.
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