Angers (meteorite)

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Angers is an L6 meteorite that hit Pays de la Loire, France in 1822. The meteor struck at 8:15 PM on 3 June. It has since been stored along with L'Aigle, another meteorite that struck France 19 years earlier, on 26 April 1803, in a room at the Muséum d’histoire naturelle d’Angers, a French natural history museum.

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N 47.366666666667 °	E -0.55 °

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49610 Angers
Pays de la Loire, France
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