Analysis of information sources in references of the Wikipedia article "Tesla Roadster do Elon Musk" in Portuguese language version.
Roadster orbiting Earth … like something out of the … opening sequence from the 1981 grownup animated movie "Heavy Metal"
picture is not fake … photo is from space … resemblance to the opening sequence of a Canadian-American adult animated movie from 1981 called Heavy Metal
captured the vehicle at a distance of 720.000 km from Earth … show a flickering effect that suggests that the Tesla Roadster is spinning fast.
ATLAS was not looking for the Roadster—it was found during routine observations and automatically identified as a near-Earth object.
The photo was shared by billionaire Elon Musk on Instagram and SpaceX on Flickr. As you might remember, SpaceX began publishing all of its Flickr photos to the public domain in March 2015, leading Flickr to add a public domain designation just days later.
list of 241 observations and growing … continue to be observed for about two weeks. … know the position of this object to better than a tenth of an arcsecond, … Almost nobody is getting data that accurate.
images were taken, 16:39-16:50 UT on 8 February 2018 … distance of 550 000 km or about 1.4 Lunar distances c.q. 0.0037 AU … 30-second exposures taken by Peter Starr and me with the 0.43-m F6.8 remote robotic telescope of Dubbo Observatory in Australia … 2073 close encounter … is no longer on the table.
Space Exploration Technologies is authorized … flight of the Falcon Heavy launch vehicle from Kennedy Space Center Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center (KSC) transporting the modified Tesla Roadster (mass simulator) to a hyperbolic orbit
a staggering image … and so impressive that the video seems somehow unreal. It's the greatest car ad of all time. … In 1917, Marcel Duchamp put a urinal on a pedestal, titled it Fountain … and called it art. … a readymade, his word for a combination of everyday objects reassembled or re-contextualized by an artist.
images were taken, 16:39-16:50 UT on 8 February 2018 … distance of 550 000 km or about 1.4 Lunar distances c.q. 0.0037 AU … 30-second exposures taken by Peter Starr and me with the 0.43-m F6.8 remote robotic telescope of Dubbo Observatory in Australia … 2073 close encounter … is no longer on the table.
