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The Moon on Monday, December 28, 1998: Waxing Gibbous, 73% lit

Waxing · 72.7% lit · ♉︎ Taurus 03°

Moon age

9.6days

Moon phase on December 28, 1998Waxing Gibbous

Monday 28 December 1998366,803 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, December 28, 1998, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 72.7% of its visible face lit, 9.6 days after the new moon and growing each night.

72.7%Illumination at noon UTC
9.6 dMoon age
366,803 km227,921 mi from Earth
♉︎ TaurusMoon sign (4°)
32.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 28, 1998 is on Saturday, January 2, 1999 at 02:50 UTC, 5 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 18, 1998 at 22:43 UTC, 10 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Saturday, December 26, 199810:46
Full Moon (after)Saturday, January 2, 199902:50

The Moon around December 28

More about this date

Monday, December 28, 1998 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 18, 1998 to the new moon of January 17, 1999, a cycle of 29.71 days.