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The Moon on Sunday, June 9, 1968: Waxing Gibbous, 97% lit

Waxing · 97.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 29°

Moon age

13.2days

Moon phase on June 9, 1968Waxing Gibbous

Sunday 9 June 1968358,258 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, June 9, 1968, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 97.2% of its visible face lit, 13.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

97.2%Illumination at noon UTC
13.2 dMoon age
358,258 km222,611 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (30°)
33.3′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 9, 1968 is on Monday, June 10, 1968 at 20:13 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, May 27, 1968 at 07:30 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Tuesday, June 4, 196804:47
Full Moon (after)Monday, June 10, 196820:13

The Moon around June 9

More about this date

Sunday, June 9, 1968 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of May 27, 1968 to the new moon of June 25, 1968, a cycle of 29.62 days.