In #123 we said there were 441 occurrences of ’s marking possession.

Here are the 22 that occur most often (22 because the 21st and 22nd have as many as the 20th so cutting off at a top 20 seemed unfair).

Rocky’s 78 times
Earth’s 34 times
ship’s 22 times
Hail Mary’s 19 times
pilot’s 18 times
Adrian’s 16 times
Venus’s 13 times
Blip-A’s 11 times
Erid’s 10 times
Stratt’s 10 times
sun’s 8 times
world’s 8 times
planet’s 7 times
carrier’s 6 times
Tau Ceti’s 6 times
Ilyukhina’s 6 times
humanity’s 5 times
Threeworld’s 5 times
Astrophage’s 4 times
Dimitri’s 4 times
NASA’s 4 times
Yáo’s 4 times