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The Moon on Friday, March 21, 1997: Waxing Gibbous, 94% lit

Waxing · 93.5% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 01°

Moon age

12.4days

Moon phase on March 21, 1997Waxing Gibbous

Friday 21 March 1997405,835 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, March 21, 1997, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 93.5% of its visible face lit, 12.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

93.5%Illumination at noon UTC
12.4 dMoon age
405,835 km252,174 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (1°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 21, 1997 is on Monday, March 24, 1997 at 04:45 UTC, 3 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, March 9, 1997 at 01:15 UTC, 12 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Sunday, March 16, 199700:06
Full Moon (after)Monday, March 24, 199704:45

The Moon around March 21

More about this date

Friday, March 21, 1997 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 9, 1997 to the new moon of April 7, 1997, a cycle of 29.41 days.