Smithsonian Magazine on MSN1d
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 ...
CNET on MSN1d
Newly Discovered Asteroid Has Over 1% Chance Of Earth Impact
NASA and other space agencies are tracking 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid with a small chance of impacting our planet in ...
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Mysterious 'asteroid' orbiting Planet Earth is actually Elon Musk's car
A brand new mysterious 'asteroid' is causing confusion after it was spotted and submitted by an amateur astronomer, before ...
USA Today6d
Space object or sports car? How a Tesla Roadster was briefly mistaken for an asteroid
Perhaps that's why the Minor Planet Center didn't initially consider the possibility when the organization announced the discovery on Jan. 2 of the unusual asteroid, complete with an official ...
Fox News6d
Newly discovered asteroid turns out to be Tesla Roadster launched into space
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 ...
Newsweek4d
Mysterious New Asteroid Turns Out To Be Tesla Roadster in Space
The "asteroid" was designated 2018 CN41 on January 2 by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after its discovery by an ...