WHICH COUNTRY OWNS THE PLANET MARS AND THE EARTHS MOON?

Question

WHICH COUNTRY OWNS THE PLANET MARS AND THE EARTHS MOON?

Answer 1

No country does.

Answer 2

None. The moon is "co-owned" by some countries I believe.

Answer 3

Upper Volta. They won it in a poker game in 1876.

Answer 4

NOTHING, NOBODY AND NO COUNTRY OWNS A THING THAT'S IN SPACE! iF IT'S NOT HUMAN-MADE THEN IT BELONGS TO NO ONE!

Answer 5

The aliens that beat us there of course.

Answer 6

the first to colonies them i guess.

Answer 7

No one country owns moon, mars or other natural satellite, planetary body.  There was the controversial "moon treaty"  of the '70's a.k.a. International Space Treaty which grants limited rights to the countries which signed it and are capable of getting there and it does include right to establish bases for exploration.  For full history and possibly a text of this full confusing treaty, try http://www.L5societyinternational.org if it still exists.  The so-called "Moon Treaty" did get the lawyers excited in the mid-'70's.

Answer 8

There are international agreements that state no country can lay claim to any extra-terrestrial body. That includes Mars and the Moon. However, any property placed on those bodies, i.e., rovers or landers, still belong to the organizations that placed them there.

There are some crackpots here in the U.S. (well, maybe not crackpots because they are making a ton of money doing this) selling "deeds" to patches of land on the Moon, but these "deeds" are not legally recognized by the government.

Answer 9

the Marslings (they HATE "martian") and the Looneys don't recognize any claims by Bobble-heads (the nicest term for Earthers that they have).

Answer 10

none

"Experts of international space law state that the Moon falls under the legal concept of res communis, which means that it belongs to a group of people, and may be used by every member of the group, but cannot be appropriated by anyone (the concept is also applied to International Waters)"

when the US first landed astronauts on the moon, the flag they planted bore the inscription: "Here Men From The Planet Earth First Set Foot Upon the Moon, July 1969 A.D. We Came in Peace For All Mankind."