Tags: Asteroid.
4897 Tomhamilton (provisional designation: 1987 QD6) is a Main Belt minor planet. It was discovered by Eleanor F. Helin at the Palomar Observatory on August 22 1987. Research shows that it was previously recorded on photographs taken as early as 1950 and was even logged as 1971QV1.It is named after Thomas Wm. Hamilton an American (born San Francisco 1939) who was a child actor (he played Barnaby in Barnaby and Mr. O’Malley and was on the early television show Mr. I-Magination).