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The Moon on Sunday, March 28, 1948: Waning Gibbous, 86% lit

Waning · 86.0% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 21°

Moon age

17.6days

Moon phase on March 28, 1948Waning Gibbous

Sunday 28 March 1948380,258 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 28, 1948, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 86.0% of its visible face lit, 17.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

86.0%Illumination at noon UTC
17.6 dMoon age
380,258 km236,281 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (22°)
31.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 28, 1948 is on Thursday, March 25, 1948 at 03:10 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 9, 1948 at 13:17 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, March 25, 194803:10
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, April 1, 194810:25

The Moon around March 28

More about this date

Sunday, March 28, 1948 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 10, 1948 to the new moon of April 9, 1948, a cycle of 29.67 days.