I just learned that there is an international rule/agreement that no country or organization may claim ownership of a planet or a star.

But it doesn’t say much about individuals.

Recently, this source reported that a spanish woman named Angeles Duran, 49, says that the sun officially belongs to her now, having had the celestial body registered in her name at a local notary office. This source says that “The document issued by the notary public declares Ms Duran to be the ‘owner of the Sun, a star of spectral type G2, located in the centre of the solar system, located at an average distance from Earth of about 149,600,000 kilometers’”

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