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Asteroid or Elon Musk?: How a Roadster fooled scientists and exposed space tracking failures
Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster fooled astronomers as an asteroid, revealing critical flaws in space object tracking and sparking ...
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Newly discovered asteroid turns out to be Tesla Roadster launched into space
Seven years after the SpaceX CEO launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit ... for Astrophysics in Massachusetts confused it with an asteroid earlier this month. A day after the astronomers with ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft to zoom past asteroid this weekend at 30,000 mph: "We don't know what to expect"
NASA's Lucy spacecraft will swoop past a small asteroid this weekend as it makes its way to an even bigger prize: the unexplored swarms of asteroids near Jupiter. It will be the second asteroid ...
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NASA's Lucy spacecraft gets up-close look of strange peanut-shaped asteroid: See images
A NASA spacecraft recently got an up-close look at a strange peanut-shaped space rock floating through the cosmos in the main asteroid belt. Not to worry: Astronomers aren't interested in the ...
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NASA’s Lucy spacecraft is about to have its second close encounter with an asteroid
A NASA spacecraft will make a close approach to an asteroid in the main belt on Sunday afternoon, in the second of several asteroid flybys planned for its 12-year mission to study remnants of the ...