The International Astronomical Union's Minor Planet Center issued a bulletin on January 2 announcing 2018 CN41 as a newly discovered near-Earth object. However, in a follow-up notice, the ...
As strange as that sounds, the car was launched in February 2018 and attached to the Falcon Heavy upper-stage booster.
The organization initially named it 2018 CN41, mistaking it for a newly discovered near-Earth object. However, the mistake was later corrected, and the object was reclassified as 2018-017A, which ...
I’m not kidding. In January, astronomers at the Minor Planet Center announced the discovery of a near-Earth asteroid, designated 2018 CN41, which was detected less than 240,000 kilometres from Earth.