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 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.
The center said on its website that 2018 CN41’s registry was deleted after “it was pointed out the orbit matches an artificial object, 2018-017A, Falcon Heavy Upper stage with the Tesla Roadster.
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Why was Musk allowed to put junk into orbit? We have enough junk and scrapped out old satellites floating up there to menace spacecraft and future space craft.
ReplyDeleteWell, at the time, I think everyone was just ecstatic to get a space program fired up again. And the Tesla is headed to a planet that NO ONE can convince me will ever have enough space traffic to endanger anything or anyone.
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