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Astronomers just deleted an asteroid because it turned out to be Elon Musk’s Tesla Roadster
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The point is that it's nowhere near Earth to cause an issue like Kessler Syndrome, which the space junk comment is clearly referring to.
The car is space junk like every other test payload or probe we've ever sent out into space that we've lost contact with is space junk.