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 ...

And thus, the Minor Planet Center logged a new object ... “So from that perspective, if you don’t know up front it’s a Tesla Roadster, there is no way to tell,” Veres added.

It's a Tesla Roadster launched in 2018 from the Falcon ... the International Astronomical Union’s Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of an unusual asteroid designated 2018 CN41.

Recently the Minor Planet Center (MPC ... issued a retraction because 2018 CN41 turned out to be Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster launched into orbit in February 2018. Morning sky: All the planetary ...

However, the mystery object turned out to be a Tesla vehicle. The Minor Planet Center (MPC) quickly retracted the findings after discovering the object was a 2010 Tesla Roadster. Elon Musk’s SpaceX ...

SpaceX At the beginning of the year, scientists at the Minor Planet Center at the Center ... Falcon Heavy Upper stage with the Tesla roadster.” Now, the obvious question: How did a Tesla end ...

A story you may have seen recently claims an asteroid spotted this month by an astronomer turned out to be a Tesla in space ... astronomer and the Minor Planet Center in Cambridge, MA even ...

It has been a little over seven years since SpaceX first test-launched its powerful Falcon Heavy rocket. The February 2018 ...

A photo of “Starman” and Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster shared by SpaceX ... On Jan. 2, the Minor Planet Center (MPC) at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass., ...

Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, launched into space in 2018, is still orbiting the Sun, covering 3.5 trillion miles and expected ...