SpaceX CEO, Elon Musk, launched his Tesla Roadster into space. The Roadster should continue to orbit through the solar system, slightly damaged by micrometeorites, for a few tens of millions of years. A group of researchers specializing in orbital dynamics has analyzed the car’s orbit for the next couple of million years.

Although it’s impossible to map out where exactly, there is a chance that one day it can return and crash into Earth (the chance is just 6% over a million years, the car is most likely to burn up as it enters the atmosphere, so do not freak out). Hanno Rein and his co-workers model the shifting of planets and exoplanets, very regularly.

Hanno Rein said “We have all of the software ready, and when we saw the launch we thought ‘Let’s see what happens’ so we ran the (Tesla’s) orbit forward for several million years”.

SpaceX spurred the car out toward Mars, but the sun’s gravity will bring it coming in again some other time months from now in an elliptical orbit, so it will frequently cross the orbits of Mars, Earth, and Venus until it undergos a lethal accident.

Rein says the car’s predicted orbit is homogeneous to the many near-Earth asteroids that carry throughout the inner solar system. Other researchers have plotted the differing brightness of the car in space to reckon that it is rotating abruptly once every 5 minutes.