Asteroid Discovery: Tesla Roadster
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When is an asteroid not an asteroid? When it's Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster, it turns out.
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The discovery of a new asteroid this month has turned out to be anything but.
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 Tesla case is not an isolated case," astronomer Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge , Massachusetts .
AstroForge will launch a spacecraft called Odin to its target asteroid in February .
The company initially kept the name of that asteroid secret from the public.
The asteroid is 2022 OB5, an M-type asteroid about 328 feet ( 100 meters ) across.
AstroForge CEO Matt Gialich told SpaceNews that by revealing the asteroid now, ahead of the launch, amateur astronomers may be able to observe the target.
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