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When is an asteroid not an asteroid? When it's Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, it turns out.
The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX ...
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Look up! It's a...Tesla? Sports car mistaken for asteroid as fiery Starlink satellite lights up sky
The vehicle, a red sports car belonging to Tesla and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, was launched into orbit in 2018. It was sent into space aboard SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, CNN reported, which was ...
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Fact or Fiction: Asteroid spotted turned out to be Tesla?
A story you may have seen recently claims an asteroid spotted this month by an astronomer turned out to be a Tesla in space.
Asteroid turns out to be Musk's Tesla Roadster launched in 2018 | The Sky Guy
Catch Tallahassee Astronomical Society’s free planetarium show “February Skies over Tallahassee,” at the Fogg Planetarium on Feb. 1.
Tesla Roadster Mistakenly Classified as Near-Earth Asteroid
The Tesla Roadster, launched by SpaceX in 2018, was mistakenly identified as a near-Earth asteroid, raising concerns over ...
Harvard astronomers mistake Elon Musk's car for an asteroid
However, hours later the MPC announced it was removing the object from its records because it wasn't an asteroid at all. It ...
NASA thought it discovered a mysterious object! Turns out it’s just Elon Musk’s Tesla on a space trip
On January 2, astronomers identified an object as asteroid 2018 CN41, but later confirmed to be Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster, launched in 2018 aboard a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket.
Asteroid or Tesla? Astronomers’ space blunder reveals Elon Musk’s cosmic junk
Astronomers announced the discovery of a new near-Earth asteroid, which turned out to be Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster launched ...
Astronomers find asteroid with 1% chance of hitting Earth: Should we be worried?
YR4, which was recently spotted in the cosmos with a non-zero chance of hitting Earth in the coming years, may have caused some alarm.