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The Moon on Tuesday, January 8, 2002: Waning Crescent, 25% lit

Waning · 25.3% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 17°

Moon age

24.6days

Moon phase on January 8, 2002Waning Crescent

Tuesday 8 January 2002379,508 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, January 8, 2002, the Moon was a Waning Crescent: 25.3% of its visible face lit, 24.6 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

25.3%Illumination at noon UTC
24.6 dMoon age
379,508 km235,815 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (18°)
31.5′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to January 8, 2002 is on Sunday, December 30, 2001 at 10:41 UTC, 9 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, January 13, 2002 at 13:29 UTC, 5 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Last Quarter (before)Sunday, January 6, 200203:55
New Moon (after)Sunday, January 13, 200213:29

The Moon around January 8

More about this date

Tuesday, January 8, 2002 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 14, 2001 to the new moon of January 13, 2002, a cycle of 29.70 days.