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The Moon on Tuesday, May 2, 2000: Waning Crescent, 4% lit

Waning · 3.9% lit · ♈︎ Aries 20°

Moon age

27.7days

Moon phase on May 2, 2000Waning Crescent

Tuesday 2 May 2000373,617 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, May 2, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 3.9% of its visible face lit, 27.7 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

3.9%Illumination at noon UTC
27.7 dMoon age
373,617 km232,155 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (20°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to May 2, 2000 is on Tuesday, April 18, 2000 at 17:42 UTC, 14 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Thursday, May 4, 2000 at 04:12 UTC, 2 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Wednesday, April 26, 200019:30
New Moon (after)Thursday, May 4, 200004:12

The Moon around May 2

More about this date

Tuesday, May 2, 2000 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of April 4, 2000 to the new moon of May 4, 2000, a cycle of 29.42 days.