According to the Minor Planet Center's notice regarding the deletion, turns out the object was the Roadster, along with the Falcon Heavy rocket's upper stage. The 2008 Tesla Roadster hitched a ...

The Minor Planet Center (MPC) seemingly mistook billionaire Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. TSLA Roadster for a small body in space earlier this month, much to the fascination of the billionaire.

Elon Musk’s sense of humor is out of this world. Seven years after the SpaceX CEO launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit, astronomers from the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center ...

On Jan. 2, the Minor Planet Center at the ... said Payne, the center director, all of which broke down on the Tesla Roadster. “This case highlights a rare confluence of factors,” he said.

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 ...

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.

A red car for a Red Planet. That's what Elon Musk was hoping for when he launched his own Tesla Roadster on SpaceX's ... space from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, as ...

Seven years after the SpaceX CEO launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit, astronomers from the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts confused it with ...