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The Moon on Tuesday, December 12, 2000: Waning Gibbous, 98% lit

Waning · 98.2% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 06°

Moon age

16.5days

Moon phase on December 12, 2000Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 12 December 2000360,750 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 12, 2000, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 98.2% of its visible face lit, 16.5 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

98.2%Illumination at noon UTC
16.5 dMoon age
360,750 km224,159 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (6°)
33.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 12, 2000 is on Monday, December 11, 2000 at 09:03 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Monday, December 25, 2000 at 17:22 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Monday, December 11, 200009:03
Last Quarter (after)Monday, December 18, 200000:41

The Moon around December 12

More about this date

Tuesday, December 12, 2000 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 25, 2000 to the new moon of December 25, 2000, a cycle of 29.76 days.