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Asteroid? Nope, It’s Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster Cruising Through Space

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.

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Harvard astronomers mistake Elon Musk's car for an asteroid

However, hours later the MPC announced it was removing the object from its records because it wasn't an asteroid at all. It was a car that was launched into space seven years ago. To be specific, it was Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster.

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When is an asteroid not an asteroid? When it's Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, it turns out.

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 called "Starman" in the driver's seat) into a long orbit around the sun in 2018 as the first payload of the company's Falcon Heavy rocket.

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"Hopefully there's no traffic": Internet in splits as Elon Musk confirms his car Roadster is floating in space "orbiting Earth and Mars"

"Hopefully there’s no traffic! [laughing emoji]." Check out even more hilarious reactions below: "Imagine you’re flying ...

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Ali Velshi: Trump reportedly wants some space from Elon Musk. He may have found a solution.

Ali Velshi explains how, amid reports of tension between Trump and Elon Musk, the president seemed to suggest sending the ...

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