Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be Tesla Roadster
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Re: Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be Tesla Roadster
#2I'm not sure I buy into the sensationalism behind this story. We're tracking billions[0] of asteroids in interplanetary space, and you say that it's a data-processing hazard that the half-dozen or so deep-space anthropogenic objects aren't submitted to a mandatory international database for de-confliction? That doesn't pass the smell test.
[0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/01/1108643/vera-c-r...
Re: Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be Tesla Roadster
#3I'm not sure I buy into the sensationalism behind this story. We're tracking billions[0] of asteroids in interplanetary space, and you say that it's a data-processing hazard that the half-dozen or so deep-space anthropogenic objects aren't submitted to a mandatory international database for de-confliction? That doesn't pass the smell test. [0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/01/1108643/vera-c-r...
I think the issue is that there isn't such a "mandatory international database for de-confliction."
Re: Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be Tesla Roadster
#4I'm not sure I buy into the sensationalism behind this story. We're tracking billions[0] of asteroids in interplanetary space, and you say that it's a data-processing hazard that the half-dozen or so deep-space anthropogenic objects aren't submitted to a mandatory international database for de-confliction? That doesn't pass the smell test. [0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/01/1108643/vera-c-r...
This is not the first time it has happened and often they are mistakenly classified as NEOs.
Re: Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be Tesla Roadster
#5Remember the hope?
Re: Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be Tesla Roadster
#6I'm not sure I buy into the sensationalism behind this story. We're tracking billions[0] of asteroids in interplanetary space, and you say that it's a data-processing hazard that the half-dozen or so deep-space anthropogenic objects aren't submitted to a mandatory international database for de-confliction? That doesn't pass the smell test. [0] https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/01/1108643/vera-c-r...
This is not the first time it has happened and often they are mistakenly classified as NEOs. https://x.com/planet4589/status/1638916566644576259
> mistakenly classified as NEOs.
Is it not an Object that approaches to Near the Earth?
Re: Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be Tesla Roadster
#7isn't this a good thing? it sets an exciting lower bound on the effectiveness of citizen science detection efforts, and a confirmation that the techniques are sound
Re: Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be Tesla Roadster
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Re: Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be Tesla Roadster
#9Seems like an odd move to just delete it. Is it any less worthy of being tracked because it's man made? Wouldn't adding it to the database at least reduce the chance of the same mistake being made again by other astronomers?
Isn't this, like other space junk in such orbits, effectively an "anthropogenic asteroid"? Why not just add them in with a special tag or naming convention to indicate that they're man-made?
Re: Astronomers delete asteroid because it turned out to be Tesla Roadster
#10That headline reads like something from The Onion.
More seriously, if they are tracking objects orbiting near the earth, I think the origin of them shouldn't matter.