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The Moon on Tuesday, March 21, 2000: Waning Gibbous, 98% lit

Waning · 97.9% lit · ♎︎ Libra 17°

Moon age

15.3days

Moon phase on March 21, 2000Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 21 March 2000385,139 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 21, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 97.9% of its visible face lit, 15.3 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

97.9%Illumination at noon UTC
15.3 dMoon age
385,139 km239,314 mi from Earth
♎︎ LibraMoon sign (17°)
31.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 21, 2000 is on Monday, March 20, 2000 at 04:45 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, April 4, 2000 at 18:12 UTC, 14 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, March 20, 200004:45
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, March 28, 200000:21

The Moon around March 21

More about this date

Tuesday, March 21, 2000 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 6, 2000 to the new moon of April 4, 2000, a cycle of 29.54 days.