Seven years after Elon Musk launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit, astronomers from the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics accidentally identified it as an asteroid. The roadster, launched in February 2018 as part of the maiden flight of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket, was initially registered as 2018 CN41 but was later deleted after its true identity was revealed.
Elon Musk’s sense of humor is out of this world. Seven years after the Space X 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 an asteroid earlier this month. 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.
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