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The Moon on Wednesday, March 21, 1956: Waxing Gibbous, 70% lit

Waxing · 70.0% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 24°

Moon age

8.9days

Moon phase on March 21, 1956Waxing Gibbous

Wednesday 21 March 1956368,899 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, March 21, 1956, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 70.0% of its visible face lit, 8.9 days after the new moon and growing each night.

70.0%Illumination at noon UTC
8.9 dMoon age
368,899 km229,223 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (24°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 21, 1956 is on Monday, March 26, 1956 at 13:11 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, March 12, 1956 at 13:37 UTC, 9 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Monday, March 19, 195617:14
Full Moon (after)Monday, March 26, 195613:11

The Moon around March 21

More about this date

Wednesday, March 21, 1956 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 12, 1956 to the new moon of April 11, 1956, a cycle of 29.54 days.