Newly Discovered Asteroid Identified as an Old Friend

[Yazata]

On January 2, astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory's Minor Planet Center booked a newly discovered asteroid.

But on January 3, they deleted it from their database, after they realized that it had the same orbit as a known object called 2018-017A.

Which is Elon's red Tesla roadster with Starman at the wheel, shot into solar orbit on the initial Falcon Heavy test flight.

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https://www.foxnews.com/science/newly-di...ched-space

[Syne]

Hopefully we get some good pictures of how it's holding up.