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 · The discovery of a new asteroid this month has turned out to be Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster launched by SpaceX in 2018.

Jan 22, 2025 · To be precise, it was Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster mounted to a Falcon Heavy upper stage, which boosted into orbit around the Sun on Feb. 6, 2018. The car — which had …

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 27, 2025 · The newly discovered asteroid, named 2018 CN41, turned out to be a Tesla launched into space by SpaceX in 2018.

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.

Jan 29, 2025 · Less than 24 hours after the Minor Planet Center announced a new asteroid, it said the object was actually Musk's electric car launched into space as payload on a rocket.

Jan 24, 2025 · Astronomers announced the discovery of a new asteroid flying precariously close to earth— only to learn it was actually a Tesla sports car launched into the cosmos by Elon Musk as a publicity ...

Jan 25, 2025 · Astronomers mistook a Tesla Roadster that was launched into orbit in 2018 for an asteroid earlier this month. The registry of what was thought to be an asteroid was soon deleted.

About a year ago, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mistakenly registered a Tesla Roadster as an asteroid. The object was named 2018 CN41; however, the confusion ...