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The Moon on Thursday, June 8, 2000: Waxing Crescent, 43% lit

Waxing · 43.0% lit · ♍︎ Virgo 09°

Moon age

6.0days

Moon phase on June 8, 2000Waxing Crescent

Thursday 8 June 2000375,710 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, June 8, 2000, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 43.0% of its visible face lit, 6.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

43.0%Illumination at noon UTC
6.0 dMoon age
375,710 km233,455 mi from Earth
♍︎ VirgoMoon sign (10°)
31.8′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to June 8, 2000 is on Friday, June 16, 2000 at 22:27 UTC, 8 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, June 2, 2000 at 12:14 UTC, 6 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Friday, June 2, 200012:14
First Quarter (after)Friday, June 9, 200003:29

The Moon around June 8

More about this date

Thursday, June 8, 2000 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of June 2, 2000 to the new moon of July 1, 2000, a cycle of 29.30 days.