The red Tesla Roadster was mistaken for an undiscovered asteroid by astronomers.
Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...
What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through ...
The newly discovered asteroid, named 2018 CN41, turned out to be a Tesla launched into space by SpaceX in 2018.
Earlier this month, an amateur astronomer stumbled upon what appeared to be a newly discovered near-Earth object (NEO). The “asteroid,” designated 2018 CN41, came alarmingly close to Earth — closer ...
According to SpaceX’s own calculation, the Roadster completed its first orbit around the Sun in August 2019 and made its ...
Space law academic states recent misidentification of asteroid—it was a Tesla Roadster heading to Mars!—reminds Earth ...
Deep space is “largely unregulated,” McDowell ... At the time of publication, SpaceX had not responded to a query from Astronomy. The Tesla Roadster mix-up came as something of a ...
Interest, and sometimes urgency, in understanding and tracking deep-space objects stems from a desire ... something is an unknown asteroid or a Tesla Roadster, then it starts to cost us money ...