RKMBs Forums .::Important::. Politics and Current Events Spanish Woman Claims She Owns The Sun.

Fortynine-year-old Angeles Duran, a resident of Vigo in Spain's northwestern region of Galicia, applied for ownership of the sun after she learnt that similar claims had been made by a US national on the Moon, Mars and Venus, the Daily Telegraph reported.

The Outer Space Treaty of 1967 prevents any government from staking claim over celestial bodies, but it doesn't extend to private individuals and she was backed by her notary after consulting legal institutions in the country.

Duran was issued with a document that declares she is "the owner of the Sun, a star of spectral type G2, located in the centre of the solar system, at an averaged distance from Earth of around 149,600,000 kilometres".

"I know the law and backed my claim legally," she was quoted as saying.

"I did it but anyone else could have done it, it simply occurred to me first," she added.

Duran said that she plans to profit from her property and wants to charge those who derive a benefit from the sun's energy.