An out-of-this-world lawsuit has been filed in the United States: in the unique lawsuit filed by an American citizen in court, he requests that the United States government and its space agency, NASA, recognize him as the sole owner of an asteroid moving in its orbit in the depths of space.
Gregory Nemitz from the city of Carson City in the state of Nevada filed the lawsuit in a local court and claimed that he owns the famous asteroid "Eros" since March 2000.
An asteroid is a huge chunk of rock from a planet orbiting the Sun. Most of the asteroids, remnants of the planet formation process billions of years ago, are concentrated in the area called the "asteroid belt", between the planet Mars and the planet Jupiter. A giant asteroid that broke off from the "belt" disintegrated into meteorites, one of which hit the earth and wiped out the dinosaurs from the surface of the earth 65 million years ago.
In the lawsuit he submitted to the court this week, Nemitz stated that he founded a special entrepreneurial company called Orbital Development, which has extensive development plans for Eros. The value of the property in his hands, according to Nemitz: more than 10 trillion dollars.
On February 12, 2001, the United States Space Agency landed an unmanned spacecraft on "Eros" - Vanmitz demands that NASA now pay him $20 a day, "parking fees". He even sent a detailed invoice for this to the accounting department of the space agency and in his claim also included a demand for "advance payment for this rent for the whole century".
Aggravation
In the lawsuit he filed, Nemitz further claims that his property rights regarding the asteroid are granted to him by virtue of the 5th, 9th and 10th Amendments to the United States Constitution. In addition to all these demands, he is also claiming damages for damage and mental anguish that he says he suffered due to NASA's refusal to respond to his claims.
The space agency meanwhile replied that there is no legal basis for these claims. Until the strange lawsuit becomes clear, if at all, Nemitz is already "clipping coupons" because of it: he has already been invited to give a lecture on it at a conference held this week in Hawaii on the subject of "laws and real estate rights in space".
The space agency meanwhile replied that there is no legal basis for these claims.
Alex Doron and "Spice Daily"
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