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The Moon on Thursday, March 2, 2000: Waning Crescent, 13% lit

Waning · 13.4% lit · ♑︎ Capricorn 29°

Moon age

26.0days

Moon phase on March 2, 2000Waning Crescent

Thursday 2 March 2000400,664 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, March 2, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 13.4% of its visible face lit, 26.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

13.4%Illumination at noon UTC
26.0 dMoon age
400,664 km248,961 mi from Earth
♑︎ CapricornMoon sign (29°)
29.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 2, 2000 is on Saturday, February 19, 2000 at 16:27 UTC, 12 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, March 6, 2000 at 05:17 UTC, 4 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, February 27, 200003:54
New Moon (after)Monday, March 6, 200005:17

The Moon around March 2

More about this date

Thursday, March 2, 2000 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 5, 2000 to the new moon of March 6, 2000, a cycle of 29.68 days.