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The Moon on Sunday, March 5, 2000: Waning Crescent, 1% lit

Waning · 0.6% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 06°

Moon age

29.0days

Moon phase on March 5, 2000Waning Crescent

Sunday 5 March 2000390,117 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Sunday, March 5, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 0.6% of its visible face lit, 29.0 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

0.6%Illumination at noon UTC
29.0 dMoon age
390,117 km242,408 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (7°)
30.6′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 5, 2000 is on Monday, March 20, 2000 at 04:45 UTC, 15 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, March 6, 2000 at 05:17 UTC, 1 day later.

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

The Moon around March 5

More about this date

Sunday, March 5, 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.