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The Moon on Tuesday, January 12, 1960: Waxing Gibbous, 98% lit

Waxing · 97.8% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 04°

Moon age

13.7days

Moon phase on January 12, 1960Waxing Gibbous

Tuesday 12 January 1960404,443 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 12, 1960, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 97.8% of its visible face lit, 13.7 days after the new moon and growing each night.

97.8%Illumination at noon UTC
13.7 dMoon age
404,443 km251,309 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (5°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 12, 1960 is on Wednesday, January 13, 1960 at 23:51 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, December 29, 1959 at 19:09 UTC, 14 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, January 5, 196018:53
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, January 13, 196023:51

The Moon around January 12

More about this date

Tuesday, January 12, 1960 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 29, 1959 to the new moon of January 28, 1960, a cycle of 29.46 days.