Jan 30, 2025 · 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 31, 2025 · Elon Musk's Tesla, for example, was initially thought to be a near-Earth asteroid that would approach within just under 150,000 miles (241,000 kilometers) of Earth at its closest point, which is ...

2244 Tesla, provisional designation 1952 UW1, is a carbonaceous asteroid from the central region of the asteroid belt, approximately 25 kilometers in diameter. It was discovered on 22 October 1952, by Serbian astronomer Milorad Protić at the Belgrade Observatory, then Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia, now Serbia. [5] .

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 ...

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 27, 2025 · Scientists mistook Elon Musk's Tesla roadster for an asteroid in a debacle that highlights the problem of tracking near-Earth objects. Discovery of the suspected asteroid was announced in the Minor Planet Electronic Circular on January 2.However, the entry was swiftly deleted when space boffins realized it was actually the Tesla roadster launched on SpaceX's first Falcon Heavy mission.

Jan 27, 2025 · A Tesla launched in space in 2018 was mistaken for an asteroid in 2025. Astronomers Thought They Had Found A Dangerous Asteroid Near Earth — It Was Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster

Jan 25, 2025 · Seven years after the SpaceX CEO launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit, astronomers from the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts confused it...

Jan 24, 2025 · The Tesla Roadster had been blasted into the cosmos during a publicity stunt in February 2018, when Musk’s company, SpaceX, was testing its Falcon Heavy rocket. 3 Now this is an asteroid.

An object in space that astronomers initially identified as an alarmingly close asteroid headed towards Earth turns out to be a Tesla car that Elon Musk launched in 2018 as part of a publicity ...