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The Moon on Tuesday, December 4, 2001: Waning Gibbous, 85% lit

Waning · 84.6% lit · ♋︎ Cancer 28°

Moon age

19.2days

Moon phase on December 4, 2001Waning Gibbous

Tuesday 4 December 2001371,776 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 4, 2001, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 84.6% of its visible face lit, 19.2 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

84.6%Illumination at noon UTC
19.2 dMoon age
371,776 km231,011 mi from Earth
♋︎ CancerMoon sign (29°)
32.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 4, 2001 is on Friday, November 30, 2001 at 20:49 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, December 14, 2001 at 20:48 UTC, 10 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Friday, November 30, 200120:49
Last Quarter (after)Friday, December 7, 200119:52

The Moon around December 4

More about this date

Tuesday, December 4, 2001 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of November 15, 2001 to the new moon of December 14, 2001, a cycle of 29.59 days.