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The Moon on Thursday, March 21, 1957: Waning Gibbous, 67% lit

Waning · 67.0% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 10°

Moon age

19.8days

Moon phase on March 21, 1957Waning Gibbous

Thursday 21 March 1957387,992 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, March 21, 1957, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 67.0% of its visible face lit, 19.8 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

67.0%Illumination at noon UTC
19.8 dMoon age
387,992 km241,087 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (11°)
30.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 21, 1957 is on Saturday, March 16, 1957 at 02:22 UTC, 5 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, March 31, 1957 at 09:19 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Saturday, March 16, 195702:22
Last Quarter (after)Saturday, March 23, 195705:05

The Moon around March 21

More about this date

Thursday, March 21, 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.