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The Moon on Thursday, December 14, 1972: Waxing Gibbous, 58% lit

Waxing · 58.0% lit · ♈︎ Aries 01°

Moon age

8.6days

Moon phase on December 14, 1972Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 14 December 1972376,153 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, December 14, 1972, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 58.0% of its visible face lit, 8.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

58.0%Illumination at noon UTC
8.6 dMoon age
376,153 km233,730 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (2°)
31.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 14, 1972 is on Wednesday, December 20, 1972 at 09:45 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, December 5, 1972 at 20:24 UTC, 9 days earlier.

The Moon around December 14

More about this date

Thursday, December 14, 1972 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 5, 1972 to the new moon of January 4, 1973, a cycle of 29.80 days.