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The Moon on Tuesday, March 20, 2001: Waning Crescent, 18% lit

Waning · 18.3% lit · ♒︎ Aquarius 09°

Moon age

25.2days

Moon phase on March 20, 2001Waning Crescent

Tuesday 20 March 2001405,461 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, March 20, 2001, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 18.3% of its visible face lit, 25.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

18.3%Illumination at noon UTC
25.2 dMoon age
405,461 km251,942 mi from Earth
♒︎ AquariusMoon sign (10°)
29.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 20, 2001 is on Friday, March 9, 2001 at 17:23 UTC, 11 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, March 25, 2001 at 01:21 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Friday, March 16, 200120:45
New Moon (after)Sunday, March 25, 200101:21

The Moon around March 20

More about this date

Tuesday, March 20, 2001 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of February 23, 2001 to the new moon of March 25, 2001, a cycle of 29.71 days.