No, the DCAs will simply require coordinates, like everywhere else. The proof
condition is dropped. The NWA 9000s will be skipped.
Believe it or not, nobody has submitted a request to reclassify Al Hag 001 or
its siblings. Has there been a paper published on it? All I'm finding are
To amplify on Carl's response...
For the past 15 years, any meteorite from this region (except falls)
would get an NWA number unless there was compelling documentation of the
coordinates of the find. This might include a photo of the meteorite in
situ with an active GPS. But this was rarely
I wouldn't get too excited about this. Lots of enstatite meteorites
(chondrites and achondrites) are melt rocks and melt breccias, and
they've been described for decades by Alan Rubin and others, e.g.
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016703796003353
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