As strange as that sounds, the car was launched in February 2018 and attached to the Falcon Heavy upper-stage booster.
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 ...
Earlier this month, they announced its discovery, initially designating it as a new asteroid named 2018 CN41. It was classified as a Near-Earth Object (NEO) after it was seen orbiting within ...
The red Tesla Roadster was mistaken for an undiscovered asteroid by astronomers.
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 ...