Monday, January 27, 2025

Newly discovered asteroid turns out to be Tesla Roadster launched into space

 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 with an asteroid earlier this month. 


A day after the astronomers with the Minor Planet Center registered 2018 CN41, it was deleted on Jan. 3 when they revealed that it was in fact Musk’s roadster. 

The center said on its website that 2018 CN41’s registry was deleted after “it was pointed out the orbit matches an artificial object, 2018-017A, Falcon Heavy Upper stage with the Tesla Roadster. 

The chick in the post below is laughing at this.

10 comments:

  1. Don't we already have enough junk up there without muskrat polluting space with his worthless car's & satellites?

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  2. Like you didn't think it was cool back before Musk inserted himself into politics. But I digress: all the hubub cause someone wanted to "find" a new asteroid and didn't do their homework to see if it was already a thing.

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    1. Actually, it was not "already a thing." That's why it was reported in the first place. Further observation and research indicated what it turned out to be.

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    2. mofo seems to be 'slower' than the average bear. lol

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    3. GS needs to go back to his crack pipe. lol

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  3. This came from The Babylon Bee, right?

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  4. Any sign of the Loc-Nar?

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  5. At work, the running joke for a while was that if anything went missing it was probably on the front seat or into the trunk of the space Tesla.

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