Spanish Woman Claims to Own the Sun

“Would you want to own a property that’s older than the dinosaurs? Along the lines of billions of years old? Well, a woman in Spain has laid claim to the sun.

Yes, you read that correctly: THE sun in the sky — the 4.5-billion-year-old celestial giver of light and heat and well, life to all things on Earth, is now owned by Angeles Duran, or so she asserts after legally registering our closest star with a notary public, the global news agency Agence France-Presse reports.

Duran told the Spanish newspaper El Mundo that she decided to try to become the sole owner of the sun when she heard about how Nevada entrepreneur Dennis Hope posted a similar claim in 1980 with the United Nations for ownership of the moon and proceeded to sell acres of lunar real estate — not exactly a traditional holiday stocking stuffer.

Hope has so far sold more than 2 million 1-acre slabs of the moon, which he offers for $22.49 on his Lunar Embassy website. He’s even expanded his available properties to include prime areas of Mercury, Venus and Mars.

In her quest to own the sun, Duran has used the same loophole as Hope by getting around the United Nations Outer Space Treaty, adopted in 1967, that stipulates “outer space is not subject to national appropriation by claim of sovereignty, by means of use or occupation, or by any other means.”"

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