RE: [meteorite-list] Ownership Claimed for Asteroid 433 Eros

[mark ford]

Jeff   Exactly! How can a US court even have Jurisdiction over another non-US country/land? (Especially an Asteroid).  – simply absurd!     On the same theme I wonder if the laws of Salvage apply in space? If you were to collect a derelict satellite and bring it back would you then be able to claim ownership??   What about if a spacecraft lands in your garden?   Mark F.   -----Original Message----- From: Jeff Kuyken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 10 November 2003 06:30 To: Meteorite List Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ownership Claimed for Asteroid 433 Eros   I just want to know how any individual court can get off on thinking they can even make a judgment on something so big outside their country; let alone the PLANET!!!   Jeff   ----- Original Message ----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 10, 2003 7:46 AM Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] Ownership Claimed for Asteroid 433 Eros    [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:  McD refused to negotiate with the lady that won that lawsuit, even early on, when her lawyer asked for little. No doubt McDonald's made the same "mistake" that the rest of humanity did  -  believing that our legal system and litigious society could not possibly be so far out of whack as to take something like that seriously.    Take a look at the proliferation of even-MORE-bizarre lawsuits, if proof is needed how far the pendulum has swung......and they all owe a debt of gratitude to the success the McDonald's suit had, making such astions mainstream rather than fringe.   Oh, by the way  -  "meteorite".    ;-)   Gregory