Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes ...

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“If we’re confused about whether something is an unknown asteroid or a Tesla Roadster, then it starts to cost us money to do things like tracking it or figuring it out.” That’s why better ...

But more recently, the car spawned a high-profile case of mistaken identity as space observers mistook it for an asteroid. Several observations of the vehicle, gathered by sweeping surveys of the ...

The citizen scientist assumed the mystery object was an undocumented asteroid and promptly sent ... if you don’t know up front it’s a Tesla Roadster, there is no way to tell,” Veres added.

According to SpaceX’s own calculation, the Roadster completed its first orbit around the Sun in August 2019 and made its ...