It turned out that the discovery of a new asteroid this month is the other. In fact, it’s not even a natural object.
The asteroid of the applicant announced on January 2, the 2018 CN41, was actually a Tesla Roadster that was actually launched in space a few years ago by ELON MUSK of SpaceX CEO. The company sent a car to a long orbit around the sun in 2018 as the first payload of the company’s Falcon Heavy Rocket (called Starman in the driver’s seat).
At that time, the launch of SPACEX TESLA (in fact Musk’s personal roadster) was a flashy flight. However, the fame did not hinder the incorrect identity case seven years later when an asteroid reported the object as an planet. On January 2, the Minor Planet Center (tracking such discoveries) of the Harvard Smithsonian Physics Center in Cambridge, Massachusetz has announced its discovery. One day later, when Tesla’s truth was revealed, the center withdrawn. “The designated 2018 CN41 has been deleted and is listed as omitted,” said the center on January 3rd.
“The Tesla case is not a isolated case,” said the Astronologist Jonathan McDawell of the Harvard Smithsonian Center in an interview. “That’s what happens quite often.”
NASA’s Wilkinson Micro Navigator (WMAP), released in 2001, was misunderstood as an asteroid in multiple cases. Until 2010, the probe studied microwave universe and did it from the earth (1.6 million kilometers) from the Earth at a stable point in a space called lagrange point 2. I noticed that it was not an asteroid.
“It’s time for people to go,” McDawell said, “the asteroids are usually operated,” said McDawell.
Tesla and WMAP have only two of the continuous asteroid detection turns caused by scientists as the lack of transparency of the spacecraft operations from commercial and government providers. In September 2024, due to concern, the American Astronomical Association (AAS) issued a statement calling for clarifying the tracking of spaceships and tracking the rocket stage in orbit, and between planets near the moon. We urged Operation Sith LUNAR.
“Such transparency promotes the status of space status, reduces interference between missions, avoiding interference with observation of natural objects, including observation of potentially dangerous asteroids, and includes moon and other objects. It is essential to ensure a peaceful exploration and use of outer space.
McDowell, who has been studying as part of a small committee on the Compasse Space debris, stated that this issue could worsen in the next few years.
More and more commercial companies and government agencies are launching satellites and missions in orbit. In 2024, SPACEX only launched 134 Falcon Rocket Missions and shattered the record. It’s more than in some countries every year.
On Earth, aviation and maritime officials have a system for tracking airplanes and ships when traveling on planets. It’s not a space, but McDawell and AAS officials should believe.
“If you need to submit a flight plan for local flights on the earth, you need to submit a flight plan for inter -planet flight,” said McDawell.
Such a lack of systems can lead to more misunderstandings of spacecraft built by astronomers by astronomers, and such confusion can have a permanent impact. For example, Elon Musk Tesla was thought to be approaching the nearest point of the earth, which was within 150,000 miles (241,000 kilometers) at first. In many cases, astronomers can affect the potentially dangerous asteroid search.
According to McDowell, databases such as the NASA Horizo NS system operated by the Jet Promotion Institute are good examples of the potential intensive pursuit system of satellites, deletion of spaceships, and rocket stages. In accordance with the explanation of NASA, this system includes eight planets, “1,436,743 asteroids, 3,992 comets, 293 planetes (including satellites of the earth and unnecessary planet), eight planets). I already have tracking data to select.
“The worst scenario is to spend $ 1 billion in sending spaceships to asteroids, and it has been found that it is not an asteroid,” McDowell told Space.com. “That’s very embarrassing.”
McDowell added that it is obviously extreme and unlikely, but it indicates the point.
For example, consider a commercial company aimed at mining Astrofoji cases and nearby asteroids nearby. In February, the company launches a spaceship called Odin on the target asteroid, but at first the secret name of the target prevents the competing mining company from falling off. It was built by intuitive machines on February 26 and is mounted on the SPACEX FALCON 9 rocket.
The secret has raised concerns about how to prevent future scientists from inadvertently categorizing Asterophogs’ spacecraft as asteroids among astronomers like McDawell.
On January 29, Astroforge finally announced the target asteroid as 2022 OB5. This crossed the MY type asteroid, which is the M -type asteroid, according to Spacenews. Astroforge CEO’s Matt Gialich may be able to observe the target of the Amateur astrophies and share the details of Space Rock, which is the potential benefit of Astrofoji, by clarifying the current shooter in Spacenews. He said.
“It’s a great victory for the transparency of astronaque,” said McDawell.
