A historical document keeps the signature of a Chilean, which ensures that became the “owner” nothing more and nothing less than the Moon, a secret that was unknown until a few years ago, when everything came to light.
Is about Jenaro Gajardo Vera, a lawyer born in 1919 and who on September 25, 1954 carried out the signed procedure, even before a notary public.
As is known, the process was carried out in the city of Talca, in the seventh region of Chile and everything is registered in the Judicial Archive of Santiago, explained the BBC at the time.
The historic document
The record was reflected in a few paragraphs, which summarize the legal status of the procedure and other personal data of the Chilean.
“Jenaro Gajardo Vera, lawyer, has owned, since before 1857, joining his possession to that of his predecessors, of the star, the only satellite of the Earth, with a diameter of 3,475.00 kilometers, called MOON, and whose boundaries for being spheroidal are: North, South, East and West, sidereal space “, says the text.
The reasons why the man decided to carry out this action are still not very clear, although in some statements at the time, he admitted that it all started as a “joke.”
It would have cost you $ 1
In an interview broadcast in 1969, Gajardo stated that he wanted to buy the Moon to enter the Talca Social Club.
Among some of the regulations, it was explicitly stipulated that the members prove they possess some property, so the lawyer came up with buying the natural satellite for only $ 1, according to the newspaper The Evening Independent.
Interest in astronomy
Meanwhile, in an interview given to the newspaper La Tercera, the Chilean went further and gave other reasons why he made the decision to register the Moon in his name.
The lawyer stated that he wanted to create the call Interplanetary Telescopic Society of Talca, in which something like a “welcome committee” was established for the first extraterrestrials to arrive on national territory, thus demonstrating their interest in astronomy.
“To strengthen the prestige of the group, as well as to give it fame, I decided to register the lunar satellite in my name. I did all the corresponding legal paperwork and I fulfilled all the requirements required by article 58 of the Real Estate Curator of our country” , he expressed at the time.
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