The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.The company sent the car (with a spacesuit-clad mannequin ...

6 days ago · Astronomers have retracted the discovery of a new asteroid after realizing the object was the remains of Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster and its driver "Starman," which were launched into space in 2018.

Jan 27, 2025 · A strange object initially thought to be a newly discovered asteroid actually turned out to be a Tesla zipping through space.. The "asteroid" was designated 2018 CN41 on January 2 by the Minor ...

Jan 22, 2025 · The Tesla Roadster mix-up came as something of a disappointment to the Turkish amateur astronomer, who asked to be identified as “G.” ... of a slice-of-life manga named Asteroid in Love (also ...

4 days ago · A red sports car belonging to Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk was launched into orbit in 2018. ... Space expert and asteroid tracker Marco Langbroek told CNN in 2018 that it was “difficult to ...

Jan 24, 2025 · What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos.. Yep, you read that right. The infinite vastness of outer ...

Jan 29, 2025 · It's not an asteroid. It's a Tesla Roadster launched in 2018 from the Falcon Heavy rocket with a ... [+] dummy driver named "Starman." Less than a day after astronomers announced the discovery of ...

6 days ago · However, the mystery object turned out to be a Tesla vehicle. The Minor Planet Center (MPC) quickly retracted the findings after discovering the object was a 2010 Tesla Roadster. Elon Musk’s SpaceX launched the Roadster into space in February 2018 as the dummy payload for the Falcon Heavy’s test flight.

Jan 25, 2025 · A Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit years ago was mistakenly labeled an asteroid by a research center, though the astronomers have since deleted the entry.

Jan 24, 2025 · However, less than a day later, the Minor Planet Center retracted this message – the “asteroid” turned out to be a Tesla Roadster car launched by SpaceX as part of the Falcon Heavy test mission on February 6, 2018. Photo from SpaceX dated February 8, 2018, shows the Tesla Roadster after it launched on a Falcon Heavy rocket