At the beginning of the year, scientists at the Minor Planet Center at the Center for Astrophysics, Harvard and Smithsonian, ...

The wannabe asteroid, announced on Jan. 2 as 2018 CN41, is actually a Tesla Roadster launched into space years ago by SpaceX ...

The newly discovered asteroid, named 2018 CN41, turned out to be a Tesla launched into space by SpaceX in 2018.

Less than 24 hours after the Minor Planet Center announced a new asteroid, it said the object was actually Musk's electric car launched into space as payload on a rocket.

What an amateur astronomer recently took to be a newly-discovered asteroid turned out to be a Tesla Roadster voyaging through the cosmos.

The “asteroid” wasn’t a space rock after all. It was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster that Elon Musk launched into space to much ...

Major astronomy body the Minor Planet Centre (MPC) was forced to list the discovery - made by a citizen scientist - as "omitted" following a case of mistaken identity ...

距今7年前的2018年2月，美国私营企业SpaceX首次发射了猎鹰重型火箭。此时作为模拟载荷搭载的是同样由伊隆·马斯克担任CEO的汽车制造商特斯拉的电动超跑Roadster。驾驶席上还坐着一位名为星人（Starman）的人体模型。

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 ...

在2020年至2022年间，至少有四艘航天器被误添加到小行星中心的小行星记录簿中，并被迅速删除，分别是欧洲日本联合太空探测器“比皮科伦坡”，美国宇航局的Lucy号，Spektr-RG天文台，1966年测量员2号月球探测器的半人马座上级火箭。

（华盛顿30日讯）美国天文学家在1月初登录了新发现的小行星“2018 CN41”，然而不到17小时便紧急删除，因为他们发现这颗“小行星”，其实是美国富豪马斯克于2018年发射至太空的特斯拉跑车Roadster。

A strange object recently spotted orbiting Earth has been identified as a Tesla Roadster. Initially classified as asteroid "2018 CN41" by the Minor Planet Center (MPC) on January 2, 2025, the object ...