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The Moon on Friday, March 15, 1957: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.3% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 16°

Moon age

13.8days

Moon phase on March 15, 1957Waxing Gibbous

Friday 15 March 1957359,337 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, March 15, 1957, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 99.3% of its visible face lit, 13.8 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.3%Illumination at noon UTC
13.8 dMoon age
359,337 km223,282 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (16°)
33.2′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 15, 1957 is on Saturday, March 16, 1957 at 02:22 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, March 1, 1957 at 16:13 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, March 9, 195711:50
Full Moon (after)Saturday, March 16, 195702:22

The Moon around March 15

More about this date

Friday, March 15, 1957 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 1, 1957 to the new moon of March 31, 1957, a cycle of 29.71 days.