🌅 Good morning, RootBadger. Sunday begins with a new look at an enduring aviation mystery and a reason to check the predawn sky this week.
🗞️ Reuters morning read: A U.S.-based team of marine archaeologists, backed by Purdue University, has mounted an expedition to Nikumaroro, a remote Pacific atoll, to examine whether an object seen in satellite imagery could be Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Electra. The object may simply be a fallen tree, and previous searches have come up empty, but the team hopes field work can test the idea that Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan landed near the island in 1937.
Read more: Reuters — Amelia Earhart expedition heads to Pacific atoll hoping to find her plane
🌠 Useful this morning: The Orionid meteor shower peaks overnight October 21–22. NASA says this year’s bright waxing Moon will hide some fainter meteors, so the better window may be in the few hours before dawn after the Moon sets. Find a dark, open spot, skip the telescope, let your eyes adjust, and scan the whole sky—the streaks can appear well beyond Orion.
Source: NASA — October 2026 skywatching tips
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