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UPDATE: Dr. Alan Rubin of UCLA has reclassified (2016) Al Haggounia 001 as an "EL Melt-rock", and the
It was only a larger sampling of material examined over many years which allowed scientists to piece
together Al Haggounia 001 actual classification. It is now widely accepted, though vastly under
reported, that Al Haggounia 001 is better classified as an ancient EL3 Enstatite that has been through
extensive secondary terrestrial processing. Al Haggounia 001 and its pairings are in effect paleo
meteorites thought to have landed on Earth near the end of the Pleistocene epoch, over 20,000 years ago.
This controversial meteorite has undergone so much secondary terrestrial processing that it is not
uncommon to find large xenolithic terrestrial clasts that have been incorporated into the meteorite often
resembling a mixed metamorphic breccia.
Despite efforts by the original researchers to have the Meteoritical Society Nomenclature Committee
officially reclassify Al Haggounia 001 as an EL3 chondrite anomalous (W3), it remains in the official
Meteoritical Society public database as an Aubrite. Researchers in the know also indicate that perhaps
twenty other meteorites with classifications ranging from Aubrite to EL6 are likely paired with Al Haggounia 001.
Meteoritical Bulletin entry was updated in 2019 to reflect the new classification.