As strange as that sounds, the car was launched in February 2018 and attached to the Falcon Heavy upper-stage booster.
Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of ...
Nearly seven years later, on Jan. 2, the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid designated 2018 CN41. The MPC said the asteroid was ...
Recently the Minor Planet Center (MPC) announced the discovery of a new asteroid – 2018 CN41. Its orbit was closer than that of the Moon making it a near-Earth object and subject to the ...
In fact, it isn't even a natural object. 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 ...
Within a day, however, they deleted the item, called 2018 CN41, because they realized it wasn’t a natural object: It was a Tesla strapped to part of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket. “The ...
Scientists with the Minor Planet Centre (MPC) designated extra terrestrial object 2018 CN41 on January 2 this year after it was spotted by a Turkish amateur astronomer. Before its designation it ...
naming it '2018 CN41.' This asteroid was said to be a near-Earth object (NEO) orbiting within 150,000 miles (about 240,000 km) of Earth, but after the announcement, it was discovered to be a car ...
The International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center issued a bulletin on Jan. 2 announcing 2018 CN41 as a newly discovered near-Earth object. NEOs include asteroids and comets.
Earlier this month, an amateur astronomer discovered what appeared to be an asteroid, designated 2018 CN41, that seemed to be passing alarmingly close to Earth. The object came within less than ...