The sense of humor of Elon Musk is outside this world.
Seven years after the CEO of SpaceX launched a Tesla Roadster in orbit, astronomers of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts confused it with an asteroid earlier this month.
One day after the astronomers of the Minor Planet Center recorded 2018 CN41, it was deleted on January 3 when they revealed that it was in fact Musk roadster.
The Center said on its website that the 2018 CN41 register had been deleted after “it was stressed that the orbit corresponds to an artificial object, 2018-017A, the upper Stade heavy Falcon with the Tesla Roadster. The 2018 CN41 designation is deleted and will be listed as omit.”
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Seven years after the CEO of SpaceX launched a Tesla Roadster in orbit, astronomers of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts confused it with an asteroid earlier this month. (SpaceX via Getty Images)
SpaceX launched the Tesla Roadster on the first flight of the huge Falcon Heavy rocket in SpaceX in February 2018.
The roadster had to go into an elliptical orbit around the sun, going a little beyond March and back to earth, but it apparently passed the orbit of Mars and continued to go to the asteroid stricture, according to Musk at the time.
SpaceX launched the Tesla Roadster on the first flight of the huge Falcon Heavy rocket in SpaceX in February 2018. (Jim Watson / AFP via Getty Images)))
When the roadster was confused with an asteroid earlier this month, it was less than 150,000 miles of the earth, which is closer than the orbit of the moon, according to Astronomy magazine, which means that astronomers would like to monitor how close it is.
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The astrophysics center (CFA) Astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell told Astronomy magazine that error shows problems with undressed objects.
Elon Musk SpaceX launched its former personal car in orbit at the time. (Justin Sullivan)
“The worst case, you spend a billion launch of a spatial survey to study an asteroid and realize that it is not an asteroid when you get there,” he said.
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