4587 Rees are credited with the discovery of . This minor planet was named after Martin Rees (born 1942), a much awarded English cosmologist and astrophysicist who has studied the galactic evolution. Rees became Astronomer Royal and President of the Royal Society in 1995 and 2005, respectively. He is also the director of the Institute of Astronomy and a professor of astronomy at the University of Cambridge. The asteroid's name was proposed by Jan Oort, and the was published by the Minor Planet Center on 28 April 1991 (). "Rees" is an assumed, stony S-type asteroid. Other sources published by EARN assume
Grover Rees III Breaux Bridge or Lafayette, where his parents and most of his eight brothers and three sisters reside. Rees was Chief Justice of the High Court of American Samoa from 1986 to 1991, having served under appointment from both Presidents Ronald W. Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush. He is also a former legislative aide to Representative Christopher H. Smith, a Republican from Trenton, New Jersey, the leader of antiabortion forces in the U.S. House. Rees shares Smith's antiabortion position. Rees furthermore is a strong defender of human rights in foreign policy. From 1995 to 2001, he was the staff director