Launched last week aboard SpaceX’s new Falcon Heavy rocket, Elon Musk’s interplanetary Tesla Roadster is currently on a lazy cruise around the sun. But the car’s journey may come to an end in the not-too-distant future when—in a twist of karmic fate—it collides with the planet nearest and dearest to all our hearts.

“The Tesla will likely impact the Earth within a few tens of millions of years,” says Hanno Rein of the University of Toronto.

At least, that’s Rein’s best guess, which is based on simulations probing the future wanderings of the 2008 Tesla Roadster. The car, hitched to the second stage of the Falcon Heavy and carrying a dummy named Starman, is already listed as a