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The Moon on Wednesday, October 3, 2001: Waning Gibbous, 99% lit

Waning · 99.0% lit · ♈︎ Aries 20°

Moon age

16.1days

Moon phase on October 3, 2001Waning Gibbous

Wednesday 3 October 2001399,367 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Wednesday, October 3, 2001, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 99.0% of its visible face lit, 16.1 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

99.0%Illumination at noon UTC
16.1 dMoon age
399,367 km248,155 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (21°)
29.9′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 3, 2001 is on Tuesday, October 2, 2001 at 13:49 UTC, 1 day earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, October 16, 2001 at 19:23 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, October 2, 200113:49
Last Quarter (after)Wednesday, October 10, 200104:20

The Moon around October 3

More about this date

Wednesday, October 3, 2001 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 17, 2001 to the new moon of October 16, 2001, a cycle of 29.37 days.