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RE: Vaucluse Meteorite

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Une météorite à Paulinet

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On Friday January 25, 2008, at 18:10 local time, of many witnesses observed the break up of an extremely luminous meteor. It seems that the meteor had a North-South trajectory, with the object observed mainly in the south-eastern and south-western areas of France.
As yet nothing has been found.

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Meteorite throws Vaucluse into a panic.
Over several hours, alerted by inhabitants, local firemen searched for a crashed plane was in fact, only a meteorite.
The meteor flew over Vaucluse, Gap, Montélimar and Lyon, and landed at an unseen location.
The meteorite threw the area in the South-east of France into a panic, at 18:30, Friday evening.
Many inhabitants alerted firemen, believing they saw a plane on fire.

"Towards 18:00 people called us to say a plane on fire was disappearing over a hill. We dispatched vehicles to the spot to search for an aircraft. But we found nothing. Des recoupements then allowed us to establish that probably was a meteorite" - Vaucluse Emergency Centre, which had received calls from Carpentras and Avignon.

Alerted, the Mount Verdun air base, to Saint-Cyr-with-Mount-in Or (the Rhone), indicated that the plane was in fact a meteorite. The "object" would have fallen between Bourges and the small village of Troy.
The civil aviation confirmed the passage of what "could be a small piece of meteorite".
Nothing was found at the site and there was neither victim, nor damage, according to the prefecture. According to scientists', six meteorites falls are recorded each year in France.

Source (French)