Waste in space: all the news surrounding space junk
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That’s no moon.
The Minor Planet Center (MPC), which tracks and reports minor planet discoveries, recently removed a new listing of a near-earth object after the amateur astronomer who found it realized it was just the Tesla Roadster that was stuck to a rocket that SpaceX launched in 2018, according to Astronomy Magazine.
Such misidentifications are common, the outlet writes, highlighting a growing issue of unregulated manmade stuff junking up space.
An asteroid got deleted because it was actually Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster
[Astronomy Magazine]
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