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Angers is an L6 meteorite that hit Pays de la Loire, France in 1822.[2] The meteor struck at 8:15 PM on 3 June.[3] 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.[4]

Angers
Type	Chondrite
Class	Ordinary chondrite
Group	L6
Country	France
Region	Pays de la Loire
Coordinates	47°22′N 0°33′W[1]
Observed fall	Yes
Fall date	3 June 1822

Classification

It is classified as L6-ordinary chondrite.[1]

See also

• Glossary of meteoritics

References

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