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
Jonathan Rees data and bank accounts, corruption of police officers and alleged commissioning of burglaries. "The Guardian" queried why the Metropolitan Police had chosen to exclude a very large quantity of Rees material from investigation by its Operation Weeting inquiry into phone hacking. Following in excess of three years on bail, Rees and others were told all charges related to Op Kalmyk and Op Tuleta would be "no further actioned". This in turn focused attention on the credibility of Ian Hurst (Martin Ingram). "The Guardian" had published extensively on Rees's involvement with corrupt police officers and the procurement of confidential information for