This is 100% serious. Congratulations to Drs. Glaze and Steinbring:
The IAU Working Group on Small Bodies Nomenclature (WGSBN)’s Bulletin 5 issue 4 (Mar 17) (https://www.wgsbn-iau.org/files/Bulletins/V005/WGSBNBull_V005_004.pdf) has announced two asteroids:
(236617) Loriglaze = 2006 JL63
Discovery: 2006-05-01 / M. W. Buie / Kitt Peak / 695
Lori S. Glaze (b. 1964) is an American planetary scientist who was NASA’s director of planetary science at NASA Headquarters during the Arrokoth flyby by the NASA New Horizons mission. She provided critical support to New Horizons in its exploration of the Kuiper Belt.
(737028) Steinbring = 2016 AR29
Discovery: 2004-03-16 / D. D. Balam / Maunakea / 568
Eric Steinbring (b. 1971) is a Canadian astronomer and Senior Research Officer at the Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Institute of the National Research Council of Canada. He leads the Canadian Gemini Office and specializes in methods of high-spatial-resolution photometry and spectroscopy.
I had an opportunity to work- even if briefly- with Dr. Glaze. She was a perfectly nice person, and rather down-to-earth in my opinion. “Ivory Tower,” hardly.
Also, Eric Steinbring is doing good work, along some of the same lines as me. He has, in part or in majority, opened up some new sites for astronomy, not just for Canada, but for the further knowledge of all mankind. May he and Glaze be enabled and celebrated, not stereotyped and scapegoated.