
The SpaceX Tesla Roadster blasted off from Cape Canaveral Kennedy Space Center onboard the Falcon Heavy rocket on February 6.
The highly unusual spacecraft is now soaring through space at incredible speeds and was last seen on February 13, 500,000 miles away from Earth.
After overshooting its initial trajectory path by hundreds of thousands of miles, the Roadster is currently soaring on an orbit similar to that of Earth’s.
But things are about to change when the cherry-red sports car slingshots towards the asteroid belt around the start of April.
You can track the exact day this happens thanks to dedicated astronomy enthusiast Ben Pearson, who created the WhereIsRoadster.com Starman tracker.
The live Starman tracker visualises a simple solar system chart with the calculated trajectory of the Roadster, Earth, Mars and Venus.
The car’s orbital path through space was carefully mapped out with data from NASA’s Pasadena-based Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and the Horizons ephemeris calculator.
Mr Pearson said: “The current data that I am using comes from JPL Horizons. I am very thankful for this wonderful resource they have provided.
“I now have a script that I run periodically to update the information files that I have, which will allow for me to track this object, to the best of human understanding, for some time to come.
“This information will eventually expire, no longer being useful.”
The data will eventually expire as Starman’s orbital path shifts and warps over time, but not for a couple of years at least Mr Pearson added.
Right now you can track Starman’s daily journey through space on a day-to-day basis all the way up to November 14, 2020.
On that specific day the car will fly in-between Earth and Mars, but without actually coming into contact with them.
The closest approach to Earth, astronomers can expect, will not happen until the year 2091 when the Roadster comes about as close as the moon.
Through this journey the SpaceX spacecraft will approach the sun, Earth and Mars at various points in time, but not close enough to collide with them.
According to scientists Hanno Rein, Daniel Tamayo and David Vokrouhlicky, there is a minimal chance of Starman perishing in a spectacular crash landing.
The trio of space experts underlined in their research paper, titled “The random walk of cars and their collision probabilities with planets”, the Starman will travel through he void for millions and millions of years.
Mr Rein, lead author of the paper, said: “We’ve not seen any single collision with Mars in 240 simulations, though we continue to run them and see what happens.
“The likely outcome is that it will crash, in tens of millions of years, into Earth or Venus or the Sun.”
The likelihood of the Roadster crashing into Earth is minimal – about 6 percent.