4 天之前 · 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.

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 ...

2 天之前 · 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 ...

2025年1月22日 · 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 ...

2025年1月24日 · 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 ...

6 天之前 · 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 ...

5 天之前 · 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 天之前 · The “asteroid” wasn’t a space rock after all. It was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk launched into space to much fanfare in 2018 as part of a publicity stunt during the maiden ...

4 天之前 · An Amateur Astronomer Seemingly Spotted a New Asteroid. It Turned Out to Be a Tesla in Space. The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in ...

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] .