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The Moon on Tuesday, December 9, 1958: Waning Crescent, 2% lit

Waning · 2.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 29°

Moon age

28.2days

Moon phase on December 9, 1958Waning Crescent

Tuesday 9 December 1958361,645 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 9, 1958, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 2.3% of its visible face lit, 28.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

2.3%Illumination at noon UTC
28.2 dMoon age
361,645 km224,716 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (30°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 9, 1958 is on Wednesday, November 26, 1958 at 10:17 UTC, 13 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 10, 1958 at 17:23 UTC, 1 day later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Thursday, December 4, 195801:24
New Moon (after)Wednesday, December 10, 195817:23

The Moon around December 9

More about this date

Tuesday, December 9, 1958 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 11, 1958 to the new moon of December 10, 1958, a cycle of 29.45 days.