| 4656 Huchra | Discovered 1978 Nov. 7 by E. F. Helin and S. J. Bus at Palomar. |
| John Peter Huchra (1948-2010), Doyle professor of cosmology at Harvard and some time associate director for optical and infrared astronomy at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, was renowned for his work on the distribution of matter in the universe, including in particular the "Great Wall" of galaxies. |
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