Astro Hawk (Ian Kluft) 🚀🛰️<p>"Astronomers just deleted an asteroid because it turned out to be [he who shall not be named]’s Tesla Roadster" by Astronomy Magazine (apparently inactive acct <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sciencemastodon.com/@astronomymag" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>astronomymag</span></a></span> if you know them, bug them to reactivate) - <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/Asteroid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Asteroid</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/2018CN41" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>2018CN41</span></a> was "discovered" and then deleted because it's a car. The car was used as a dummy weight for the initial demonstration launch of Falcon Heavy in 2018. <a href="https://www.astronomy.com/science/astronomers-just-deleted-an-asteroid-because-it-turned-out-to-be-elon-musks-tesla-roadster/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">astronomy.com/science/astronom</span><span class="invisible">ers-just-deleted-an-asteroid-because-it-turned-out-to-be-elon-musks-tesla-roadster/</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/astronomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>astronomy</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/traffic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>traffic</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/LowFlyingRocks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LowFlyingRocks</span></a> <a href="https://spacey.space/tags/HighFlyingCars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HighFlyingCars</span></a></p>