(10160) Totoro Main-belt Asteroid
Discovered on 31 December 1994 by T. Kobayashi at Oizumi.
Hayao Miyazaki produced the animated movie My Neighbor Totoro in 1988, featuring the fairy Totoro. Through the movie, Totoro once again found his place in the hearts of Japanese children, in a time when the woods and darkness where Totoro lives are rapidly disappearing from the earth.Naming citation (20020624/MPCPages.arc), IAU / Minor Planet Center, via NASA/JPL
Where Totoro is today
Seen from above the solar system on 2026-10-14: Totoro is 2.35 au from the Sun and 2.82 au from Earth. Computed from JPL's orbital elements.
Facts
| Number | 10160 |
| Provisional designation | 1994 YQ1 |
| Orbit class | Main-belt Asteroid |
| Diameter | 3.10 km (#14,948 largest of 17,440 named asteroids with a measured size) |
| Albedo | 0.349 |
| Rotation period | 14.3 hours |
| Absolute magnitude (H) | 14.12 |
| Orbital period | 3.72 years |
| Semi-major axis | 2.40 au |
| Perihelion – aphelion | 2.08 – 2.72 au |
| Eccentricity | 0.133 |
| Inclination | 6.88° |
| Closest distance between its orbit and Earth's (MOID) | 1.09 au |
Data: NASA/JPL Small-Body Database and the IAU Minor Planet Center.
Also named after someone called Hayao
All asteroids named after someone called Hayao
Also discovered on 31 December 1994
- (7602) Yidaeam
- (8207) Suminao
- (9784) Yotsubashi
- (9785) Senjikan
- (10161) Nakanoshima
- (10367) Sayo
- (55815) Melindakim