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The Moon on Thursday, May 17, 1962: Waxing Gibbous, 95% lit

Waxing · 95.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 01°

Moon age

13.3days

Moon phase on May 17, 1962Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 17 May 1962398,589 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, May 17, 1962, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 95.4% of its visible face lit, 13.3 days after the new moon and growing each night.

95.4%Illumination at noon UTC
13.3 dMoon age
398,589 km247,672 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (2°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 17, 1962 is on Saturday, May 19, 1962 at 14:32 UTC, 2 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, May 4, 1962 at 04:25 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Friday, May 11, 196212:44
Full Moon (after)Saturday, May 19, 196214:32

The Moon around May 17

More about this date

Thursday, May 17, 1962 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 4, 1962 to the new moon of June 2, 1962, a cycle of 29.38 days.