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December 1, 2002: Asteroids named for Miyazaki and Totoro
Japanese amateur astronomer Takao Kobayashi has chosen to name two asteriods he discovered in 1994 after Miyazaki and Totoro, and the names have been approved by the International Astronomical Union. Under the rules of the IAU, the discoverer of an asteroid gets to choose the name for it. As there are over 52,000 known asteroids, the IAU is very relaxed about the naming. (Some asteroids have been named after the discoverer's pets!) Asteroid 8883 discovered on January 16, 1994 and asteroid 10160 discovered on December 31, 1994 have been named "Miyazakihayao" and "Totoro". The names are also puns in Japanese. "8" is pronounced as "Ya" and "3" is pronounced as "Mi" and "San", thus three 8s = Mi ya, and 3 = San, so 8883 can be read as "Miya-San." Also '10' is pronounced as 'Tou' and '6' is pronounced as 'Ro(ku)', so 10160 is close to 10106 which can be read as 'Totoro'.
A news article about this (in Japanese) can be found
here while the official listings of the names can be found by going to
his page and scrolling down to them in alphabetical order. While you are there you can enjoy some of the other names from pop culture that have been given to asteroids (TARDIS, John, Paul, George, Ringo, Terrygilliam, "Monty Python", Madhatter, "James Bond", Enterprise, "Mr. Spock", etc.) Ironically there are asteroids named "Nausikaa" (#192) and "Laputa" (#1819), but they were discovered in 1879 and 1948 (respectively) and so are named after the original Greek princess in the "Odyssey" and the floating island in "Gulliver's Travels" rather than Miyazaki's creations.
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