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The Moon on Monday, January 3, 2000: Waning Crescent, 9% lit

Waning · 9.3% lit · ♐︎ Sagittarius 07°

Moon age

26.6days

Moon phase on January 3, 2000Waning Crescent

Monday 3 January 2000405,993 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Monday, January 3, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 9.3% of its visible face lit, 26.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

9.3%Illumination at noon UTC
26.6 dMoon age
405,993 km252,272 mi from Earth
♐︎ SagittariusMoon sign (7°)
29.4′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 3, 2000 is on Wednesday, December 22, 1999 at 17:31 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, January 6, 2000 at 18:14 UTC, 3 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, December 29, 199914:05
New Moon (after)Thursday, January 6, 200018:14

The Moon around January 3

More about this date

Monday, January 3, 2000 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 7, 1999 to the new moon of January 6, 2000, a cycle of 29.82 days.