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I'm assuming whomever named these spots on Mars took inspiration from Mt Meeker in Colorado. This also has a rock feature on its southwest slope called the dragons egg.
The feature is prominent in a technical backcountry ski route called The Dragons egg couloir.
Basically they take a geological region from somewhere here on earth, such as Colorado or The Rocky Mountains, and take names from those regions.