4897 Tomhamilton

4897 Tomhamilton (tên chỉ định: 1987 QD6) là một tiểu hành tinh vành đai chính. Nó được phát hiện bởi Eleanor F. HelinĐài thiên văn Palomar ngày 22 tháng 8 năm 1987. Research shows that it was previously recorded ngày photographs taken as early as 1950, và was even logged as 1971QV1.Nó được đặt theo tên Thomas Wm. Hamilton, an American (born San Francisco, 1939) who was a child actor (he played Barnaby in Barnaby và Mr. O'Malley và was ngày the early television show Mr. I-Magination). As an adult he worked ngày Apollo program, determining fuel requirements và radar accuracy requirements for lunar orbit rendezvous. He later worked as an astronomy educator và planetarium director, và is the author of a time travel adventure novel, Time for Patriots (ISBN 978-1-60693-224-7). Hamilton và Helin were acquainted, as he had interviewed her ở an astronomical conference for a cable television show he was producing ở the time.