As strange as that sounds, the car was launched in February 2018 and attached to the Falcon Heavy upper-stage booster.
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 ...
The red Tesla Roadster was mistaken for an undiscovered asteroid by astronomers.
naming it '2018 CN41.' This asteroid was said to be a near-Earth object (NEO) orbiting within 150,000 miles (about 240,000 km) of Earth, but after the announcement, it was discovered to be a car ...