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Newly Discovered Asteroid Has Over 1% Chance Of Earth Impact
NASA and other space agencies are tracking 2024 YR4, a near-Earth asteroid with a small chance of impacting our planet in ...
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An Amateur Astronomer Seemingly Spotted a New Asteroid. It Turned Out to Be a Tesla in Space
The car, launched in 2018 on a SpaceX rocket’s upper stage, is one of many human-made objects in deep space that could ...
NASA Tracks Skyscraper-Sized Asteroid With a 1% Chance of Earth Impact in 2032
An asteroid the size of a skyscraper, 2024 YR4, has caught NASA’s attention due to a slight chance — just over 1% — of impacting Earth in 2032. While this sounds alarming, history shows that similar ...
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Mysterious New Asteroid Turns Out To Be Tesla Roadster in Space
The "asteroid" was designated 2018 CN41 on January 2 by the Minor Planet Center (MPC ... "I first went to JPL's Small Body Database to quickly take a look at the Earth close approach dates ...
The Independent3d
Newly discovered ‘asteroid’ near Earth turns out to be Elon Musk’s car
Earlier this month, an amateur astronomer discovered what appeared to be the “asteroid”, designated ... might collide with the planet. However the Minor Planet Center (MPC), which officially ...
Fox News6d
Newly discovered asteroid turns out to be Tesla Roadster launched into space
astronomers from the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts confused it with an asteroid earlier this month. A day after the astronomers with the ...
New York Post6d
Astronomers announce discovery of new asteroid — only to learn it’s a Tesla sports car hurling through space
On Jan. 3, Minor Planet Center announced it was “omitting” the would-be asteroid from its records. The out-of-this world mistake irked astronomers, who blamed a growing number of “untracked ...
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Minor Planet Center
The Minor Planet Center collects observational data from professional and amateur astronomers, recording the discoverer and name of each object. This data is particularly important for tracking ...
India Today3d
From Asteroid threat to space oddity: Scientists mistake Tesla Roadster for dangerous celestial body
Listen to Story Astronomers mistook Musk's Tesla for an asteroid. Minor Planet Center recorded it as '2018 CN41'. Space debris complicates asteroid studies. A team of Harvard-affiliated astronomers ...
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Space blunder: Centre for Minor Planets registers Tesla Roadster as an asteroid!
Recently, a Tesla Roadster was mistaken for an asteroid. The confusion happened 7 years after the car was launched into space in the inaugural flight of SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket in February 2018.