Amateur astronomists across Gauteng said on Monday they were focussing their search for an alleged meteorite, which allegedly plummeted to earth on Saturday night, in the North West.

Residents from across the province witnessed what looked like a mini-comet streaking across the sky at the weekend.

“From all the accounts of eyewitnesses it has definitely exploded in the air and once it has done that it would then come to the ground in thousands of pieces,” said meteorite expert Ronnie McKenzie said.