Or Sophia Loren regularly posing with her 300SL Gullwing coupe around the same time ... smooth ride compliance with sharp dynamic response. The car’s aluminium space frame chassis is part of a body ...

The reason was simple, if at first nonsensical: The object not only was definitely not an asteroid, but wasn't any sort of space object at all. Rather, it was a cherry-red Tesla Roadster.

Elon Musk’s sense of humor is out of this world. Seven years after the SpaceX CEO launched a Tesla Roadster into orbit, astronomers from the Minor Planet Center at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center ...

It turned out to be the Tesla Roadster launched into space by Elon Musk in 2018. Other objects have also been mistaken for asteroids. An expert from the CfA sees these incidents as a major problem.