An amature astronomer spotted a near Earth object and alerted authorities only to realize it was Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster ...

“The designation 2018 CN41, announced in MPEC 2025-A38 on Jan 2, 2025 UT, is being deleted. The object was reported through the identifications pipeline as a 3-nighter linkage found in the isolated ...

The organization initially named it 2018 CN41, mistaking it for a newly discovered near-Earth object. However, the mistake was later corrected, and the object was reclassified as 2018-017A, which ...

The International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center issued a bulletin on January 2 announcing 2018 CN41 as a newly discovered near-Earth object. However, in a follow-up notice, the ...

The red Tesla Roadster was mistaken for an undiscovered asteroid by astronomers.

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An astronomer there verified the finding. And thus, the Minor Planet Center logged a new object, asteroid “2018 CN41.” Within 24 hours, however, the center retracted the designation.

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 ...

naming it '2018 CN41.' This asteroid was said to be a near-Earth object (NEO) orbiting within 150,000 miles (about 240,000 km) of Earth, but after the announcement, it was discovered to be a car ...