Title Who Owns the Moon? : Extraterrestrial Aspects of Land and Mineral Resources Ownership Author(s) Pop, Virgiliu Publication Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2008. Description XII, 176 p : online resource Abstract Note This work investigates the permissibility and viability of property rights on the celestial bodies, particularly the extraterrestrial aspects of land and mineral resources ownership. In lay terms, it aims to find an answer to the question "Who owns the Moon?" After critically analyzing and dismantling with legal arguments the trivial issue of sale of extraterrestrial real estate, the book addresses the apparent silence of the law in the field of landed property in outer space, scrutinizing whether the factual situation on the extraterrestrial realms calls for legal regulations. The legal status of asteroids and the relationship between appropriation under international law and civil law appropriation are duly examined, as well as different property patterns ??? such as the commons regime, the Common Heritage of the Mankind, and the Frontier paradigm. Virgiliu Pop is one of world's specialists in the area of space property rights. A member of the International Institute of Space Law, Virgiliu has authored several acclaimed papers in the field of space law and policy, and was interviewed by prestigious media outlets as diverse as New Scientist, Space.com/MSNBC, The Space Show, La Tercera (Chile), Ta Nea (Greece), Geo Magazine (Germany) and several publications in his native Romania ISBN,Price 9781402091353 Keyword(s) 1. Aerospace engineering 2. Aerospace Technology and Astronautics 3. ASTRONAUTICS 4. ASTRONOMY 5. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology 6. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques 7. Astronomy???Observations 8. ASTROPHYSICS 9. EBOOK 10. EBOOK - SPRINGER 11. International Economic Law, Trade Law 12. INTERNATIONAL LAW 13. Law and economics 14. Law of the sea 15. Law of the Sea, Air and Outer Space 16. Observations, Astronomical 17. Trade Item Type eBook Multi-Media Links Please Click here for eBook Circulation Data Accession#   Call# Status Issued To Return Due On Physical Location I06957     On Shelf