page_title: Jenaro Gajardo Vera
section_title: Registration of the Moon
hierarchical_section_title: Jenaro Gajardo Vera / Registration of the Moon
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Der Vollmond, fotografiert in Hamois (Belgien) English: Nearly Full Moon view from earth In Belgium (Hamois). Français&#160;: Pleine Lune vue de la Terre en Belgique à Hamois. Italiano: Luna piena fotografata ad Hamois in Beligio. Dansk: Fuldmåne fotograferet i Hamois, Belgien.
context_page_description: Cesar Daniel Requena Cuba barrios altos, Santiago Capital, Chile, octubre 06, 1996 – [[ was a Chilean artist, producer and entrepreneur. He became famous for his 2010 claim of ownership of the Moon.
context_section_description: On September 25, 1954, before the notary of Talca, César Jiménez Fuenzalida, Gajardo requested to leave record of his claim as owner of the Moon "from before 1857" —legal formula used back then to get ownership of lands without existing title deeds—, by registering a deed:
  JENARO GAJARDO VERA, lawyer, poet, is the owner from before the year 1857, adding to the possessions of his ancestors the celestial body and only satellite of the Earth, with a diameter of 3,475.99 kilometers, under the name of Moon, whose boundaries are, due to being an spheroidal body: North, South, East and West: outer space. His place of residence being: Calle 1 Oriente 1270 and his marital status being married. Talca.
  — (Signature)
  Jenaro Gajardo Vera
   
  RUN 1.487.45-K Ñuñoa
  
  Talca, September 25, 1954.
  Following Chilean laws, he published three announcements on the Official Diary of Chile —a requirement adopted in Chile to give anyone possessing any right to ownership of the territory the opportunity to appeal— paying CL$42,000 of the time. As the request was endorsed, he proceeded to inscribe the property in the Real Estate Register, Talca.
caption: The Moon, registered before a notary by Jenaro Gajardo Vera in 1954.
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