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The Moon on Monday, June 6, 1960: Waxing Gibbous, 87% lit

Waxing · 86.9% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 03°

Moon age

12.0days

Moon phase on June 6, 1960Waxing Gibbous

Monday 6 June 1960368,606 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, June 6, 1960, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 86.9% of its visible face lit, 12.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

86.9%Illumination at noon UTC
12.0 dMoon age
368,606 km229,041 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (3°)
32.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 6, 1960 is on Thursday, June 9, 1960 at 13:02 UTC, 3 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, May 25, 1960 at 12:26 UTC, 12 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, June 2, 196016:01
Full Moon (after)Thursday, June 9, 196013:02

The Moon around June 6

More about this date

Monday, June 6, 1960 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 25, 1960 to the new moon of June 24, 1960, a cycle of 29.63 days.