Tracking doesn’t necessarily have to be lost for this kind of thing to happen. The Rosetta spacecraft was accidentally given a provisional asteroid designation in 2007.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosetta_(spacecraft)#Deep_space_manoeuvres

It was less than 24 hours ago.

coinciding with what would have been Trump’s 78th birthday.

Did I miss something?

You’re not missing much. It’s mostly just a list of embedded tweets.

Here’s the tweet that mentions the meth lab: https://twitter.com/disappoptimism/status/1762416923080290397