Appeal Number: 2006-1773
Application Number: 10/051,000
4 wherein, the primary function of the deed, and so stated in the deed's
contents, is to provide an accurate and detailed description of the location and
boundary of the parcel, and not to indicate any legal ownership of the parcel;
5 wherein, the land containing the parcel has been subject to the Apollo
Lunar Space Program of exploration and survey conducted by the U.S.
Government during the 1960's and 1970's, and
6 wherein, the value of the deed is to be based on the possibility that, at
some future time, the U.S. Government may choose to claim some part or all of
Earth's Moon, and as a consequence, may choose to encourage lunar
development by establishing a land grant program ;
7 wherein, as a further consequence, the government may choose to
recognize a land grant claimant's ownership of the Deed of Claim for a specific
land parcel as an essential element of the claimants [sic. claimant’s] request for
the specific land parcel;
8 developing a plan of subdivision of the lunar globe into a decreasing size
sequence of regions, sections, blocks and parcels;
9 wherein, subdivision of the lunar globe results in four equally sized mid-
latitude regions and two equally sized polar regions, said mid-latitude regions
defined as Region 1, Region 2, Region 3 and Region 4, and said polar regions
defined as Region 5 and Region 6;
10 wherein, a first mid-latitude Region 1 is centered on the equatorial center
of the lunar near side, has longitudinal and latitudinal dimensions of 90 degrees,
and the remaining three mid-latitude Regions 2, 3 and 4 are similarly constructed
with center longitudinal spacings of 90 degrees; and where Polar Region 5
contains all that land from North 45 Degrees Latitude to the Lunar North Pole; and
where Polar Region 6 contains all that land from South 45 Degrees Latitude to the
lunar South Pole;
11 wherein, Region 1 has the singular quality of containing the 6 Apollo
landing sites within its boundary and is accordingly subdivided into 6 sections,
each bounded by pairs of longitude and latitude lines, and containing one of the
landing sites, with the result that the sections are not necessarily of equal size;
12 wherein, Regions 2, 3, and 4 are each subdivided into 6 sections, three
above and three below the lunar equator, each section equally bounded by pairs
of 30 degree-spaced lines of longitude and 45 degree-spaced lines of latitude;
13 wherein, Polar Regions 5 and 6 are each subdivided into 4 radial
sections, each section equally bounded by pairs of 90 degree-spaced lines of
longitude and 45 degree spaced lines of latitude;
14 wherein, the sections of Regions 1, 2, 3, and 4 are each subdivided into a
multiplicity of blocks whose latitude and longitude dimensions are 5 degrees;
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