User:Thucydides411/Nemitz v. United States (2004)

Nemitz v. United States (2004) was a case in which a private citizen, Gregory Nemitz, unsuccessfully laid claim to the asteroid Eros. A federal judge ruled that Nemitz could not prove ownership of the asteroid, and thus could not demand parking and storage fees of NASA, which had landed the spacecraft NEAR Shoemaker on Eros in 2001.