Any idea on what legal basis they're making that claim? I can see making the claim of "national treasures" when it comes to rocks that _Apollo_ brought back. But that assumes that they're claiming some sort of 'ownership' over them to begin with.
-MM On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 18:30, Randall Clague wrote: > At 05:54 PM 8/6/2004 -0400, Michael Mealling wrote: > >Is anyone aware of any legal research or disagreement around who 'owns' > >the moon rocks that NASA brought back? I notice that no one ever > >disputes the US's right to own those rocks and to transfer ownership to > >someone else. > > NASA claims ownership of the Apollo moon rocks, always has. What's > annoying is that current U.S. government policy is that it owns all Apollo > moon rocks, on the grounds that they are, and I quote, "irreplaceable > national resources." The gummint, I don't know if it's NASA or NSF, is > trying to impound all privately held Apollo moon rocks - even the ones it > gave away in the 1970s - on that basis. _______________________________________________ ERPS-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.erps.org/mailman/listinfo/erps-list
