The newly discovered asteroid, named 2018 CN41, turned out to be a Tesla launched into space by SpaceX in 2018.
What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos.
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Astronomers briefly thought Elon Musk’s car was an asteroid. Here’s why that points to a broader problemAstronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...
According to SpaceX’s own calculation, the Roadster completed its first orbit around the Sun in August 2019 and made its ...
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Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster Mistaken for Asteroid in SpaceSpaceX launched Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster into space, sending it on an unexpected journey beyond Earth. The car, with a mannequin dubbed "Starman" at the wheel, was meant to orbit the Sun, and it's ...
Elon Musk’s sense of humor is out of this world. Seven years after the SpaceX CEO launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit, astronomers from the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center ...
In a short but funny interaction, Jay Leno had to remind Tesla executives that the Roadster still exists – sort of, since it ...
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When is an asteroid not an asteroid? When it's Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, it turns out.The discovery of a new asteroid this month has turned out to be Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster launched by SpaceX in 2018.
The reason was simple, if at first nonsensical: The object not only was definitely not an asteroid, but wasn't any sort of space object at all. Rather, it was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster.
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