The hunt for fragments of an "unusually large meteor" that lit up the skies over Norway on 25 July has begun.

The rumbling of the meteor startled numerous residents and led to calls to Norwegian emergency services, though no injuries or damage have been reported yet, the Norwegian police said. .

The Norwegian Meteor Network (NMN), a group that monitors meteor activity in the country, has analyzed video footage of the extraplanetary visitor's trajectory to pinpoint its landing site, which the group believes to be somewhere in Finnemarka forest, located 40 miles (60 kilometers) from Oslo. .

The NMN conducted a search for fragments from the meteor Sunday morning and into the afternoon.

—Photos: Fireball meteor over Chelyabinsk, Russia.

The blazing rock that rumbled and flashed above Oslo was a special type of meteor called a "fireball" meteor, defined as any meteor emitting light of an intensity equal to or greater than that of Venus in the night sky, according to the American Meteor Society (AMS).

One fireball meteor was witnessed passing over England, Wales and northern France in March 2021, Live Science previously reported.

In the same month, a meteor the size of a bowling ball exploded over Vermont with the force of 440 pounds (200 kilograms) of TNT, Live Science previously reported.

The most explosive meteor event in recent history occurred near Chelyabinsk in central Russia in 2013.

based staff writer at Live Science

Thank you for signing up to Live Science