It's been seven years since Elon Musk sent a Tesla Roadster into space, so why did he do it and where is it now?
Astronomers mistook a car SpaceX blasted into space years ago as an asteroid. The brief mix-up highlights the sometimes difficult pursuit of tracking deep-space objects.
Launched by Elon Musk in February 2018, the Tesla Roadster was sent to space as part of the SpaceX project, carried aboard the Falcon Heavy rocket to test the launch.