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 June 3rd. It has since been stored along with L'Aigle
, another meteorite that struck France 19 years prior, in a room at the Muséum d’histoire naturelle d’Angers
, a French natural history museum.
L chondrite
The L type ordinary chondrites are the second most common type of meteorite, accounting for approximately 35% of all those catalogued, and 40% of the ordinary chondrites....
meteorite that hit Pays de la Loire
Pays de la Loire
Pays de la Loire is one of the 27 regions of France. It is one of the regions created in the late 20th century to serve as a zone of influence for its capital, Nantes, one of a handful so-called "balancing metropolises" ¹...
, France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
in 1822. The meteor struck at 8:15 PM on June 3rd. It has since been stored along with L'Aigle
L'Aigle (meteorite)
-History:In the early afternoon of 26 April 1803 a meteorite shower of more than 3000 fragments fell upon the town of L'Aigle in Normandy . Upon hearing of this event the French Academy of Sciences sent the young scientist Jean-Baptiste Biot, to investigate that spectacular fall of stones...
, another meteorite that struck France 19 years prior, in a room at the Muséum d’histoire naturelle d’Angers
Muséum d’histoire naturelle d’Angers
Muséum d’histoire naturelle d’Angers is a French natural history museum in the Hôtel Demarie-Valentin, in Angers. It contains 100,000 specimens and documents, including 2,500 birds, 20,000 molluscs, and 50,000 fossils...
, a French natural history museum.