It Was Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster

Asteroid? Nope, It’s Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster Cruising Through Space
Less than 24 hours after the Minor Planet Center announced a new asteroid, it said the object was actually Musk's electric car launched into space as payload on a rocket.
An Amateur Astronomer Seemingly Spotted a New Asteroid. It Turned Out to Be a Tesla in Space
The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could potentially be mistaken for natural celestial bodies
Newly discovered ‘asteroid’ near Earth turns out to be Elon Musk’s Tesla car
Newly discovered ‘asteroid’ near Earth turns out to be Elon Musk’s Tesla car - Cherry-red Tesla Roadster was launched in 2018 during SpaceX Falcon Heavy’s inaugural flight
Mysterious New Asteroid Turns Out To Be Tesla Roadster in Space
The newly discovered asteroid, named 2018 CN41, turned out to be a Tesla launched into space by SpaceX in 2018.
Space object or sports car? How a Tesla Roadster was briefly mistaken for an asteroid
What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos.
Newly discovered asteroid turns out to be Tesla Roadster launched into space
Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of what was thought to be an asteroid was soon deleted.
Astronomers make a huge mistake and confuse a new asteroid with Elon Musk’s Tesla: “It turned out to be space junk”
The Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (United States) had to withdraw the discovery when it realized that it was a car.
Elon Musk's Tesla mistaken for asteroid in near-Earth collision scare
However, the Minor Planet Center (MPC), the agency responsible for cataloging asteroids, quickly retracted the classification after determining that the object was actually Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster, which was sent into space aboard SpaceX’s inaugural Falcon Heavy flight.
Strange new asteroid turns out to be Tesla Roadster
A strange object recently spotted orbiting Earth has been identified as a Tesla Roadster. Initially classified as asteroid "2018 CN41" by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) on January 2, 2025, the object was discovered by an amateur astronomer based in Turkey.
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Astronomers announce discovery of new asteroid — only to learn it’s a Tesla sports car hurling through space
The Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, Mass., officially registered the new space rock Jan. 2, saying it was spotted hurling ...
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Musk’s space Tesla mistaken for new asteroid leading to red-faced boffins quickly reversing original announcement
Scientists spotted a new asteroid—turns out it was Musk’s Tesla Roadster. Who knew space junk could be this expensive… or ...
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Tesla and SpaceX Are Building Something Insane!
Tesla and SpaceX are teaming up to build something unlike anything the world has seen before—a next-generation Roadster that ...
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Tesla To Test Robotaxi In Austin, TX, This June
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How GM Topped Tesla To Become One Of The Fastest-Growing U.S. EV Makers
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President Trump’s Climate Rollbacks Could Derail Tesla’s 2025 Sales Goals
On the day of his inauguration, President Trump signed an executive order seeking to repeal electric vehicle tax credits.