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The Moon on Sunday, March 22, 1959: Waxing Gibbous, 93% lit

Waxing · 92.6% lit · ♌︎ Leo 29°

Moon age

13.0days

Moon phase on March 22, 1959Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 22 March 1959372,498 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 22, 1959, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 92.6% of its visible face lit, 13.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

92.6%Illumination at noon UTC
13.0 dMoon age
372,498 km231,460 mi from Earth
♌︎ LeoMoon sign (30°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 22, 1959 is on Tuesday, March 24, 1959 at 20:03 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, March 9, 1959 at 10:51 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, March 17, 195915:10
Full Moon (after)Tuesday, March 24, 195920:03

The Moon around March 22

More about this date

Sunday, March 22, 1959 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 9, 1959 to the new moon of April 8, 1959, a cycle of 29.69 days.