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The Moon on Thursday, March 22, 1973: Waning Gibbous, 88% lit

Waning · 87.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 12°

Moon age

17.5days

Moon phase on March 22, 1973Waning Gibbous

Thursday 22 March 1973399,790 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, March 22, 1973, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 87.7% of its visible face lit, 17.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

87.7%Illumination at noon UTC
17.5 dMoon age
399,790 km248,418 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (13°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 22, 1973 is on Sunday, March 18, 1973 at 23:34 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, April 3, 1973 at 11:45 UTC, 12 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Sunday, March 18, 197323:34
Last Quarter (after)Monday, March 26, 197323:46

The Moon around March 22

More about this date

Thursday, March 22, 1973 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 5, 1973 to the new moon of April 3, 1973, a cycle of 29.48 days.