The Verge reports that Starman overshot Mars:
https://www.theverge.com/2018/2/6/16...elon-musk-mars
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Before the Tesla launched, Musk said that there was an extremely tiny chance that the vehicle would ever hit Mars, and that seems to hold true. Within the next decade, the roadster will make its closest approach to Mars in October of 2020, coming within 4.3 million miles, according to Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at Harvard and spaceflight expert. He also figured out the next time the Roadster gets “close” to Earth is in March of 2021, when it passes within 28 million miles of our planet.
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I wonder if the tires survived the Van Allen Belts. And if they were deflated so they wouldn't pop.