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
Seth Cook Rees was heavily influenced by the “fourfold gospel” of A. B. Simpson, founder of the Christian & Missionary Alliance, which emphasized of Salvation, Sanctification, Healing and the Second Coming. Rees' views were crystalized in a 1897 book titled "The Ideal Pentecostal Church". In 1898, Rees' wife Hulda passed away. The following year, in November 1899, Rees married 17-year-old, Swedish-born, Frida Marie Stromberg of Providence, Rhode Island. For their honeymoon, the two held a revival in South Carolina attended by more than 1,000 "seekers." By 1901, Rees had set up a ministry in Chicago, where he established his first "rescue home" for