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.
Molly Marie Cope, 84, of Virginia, Minn., died Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009, at the Virginia Regional Medical Center. She was born July 23, 1924, in Virginia, to John F. Hoey and Louise Erickson Hoey.