(4837) Bickerton

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( 4837 ) Bickerton is one of the main asteroid belt, which from the New Zealand astronomer Alan C. Gilmore and Pamela Margaret Kilmartin at Mount John Observatory ( IAU code 474) was discovered on 30 June 1989.

The asteroid was named after Alexander W. Bickerton, the first Professor of Chemistry at Canterbury College (now the University of Canterbury ) and teacher of Ernest Rutherford.

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