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The Moon on Saturday, March 30, 2002: Waning Gibbous, 95% lit

Waning · 95.4% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 04°

Moon age

16.4days

Moon phase on March 30, 2002Waning Gibbous

Saturday 30 March 2002361,559 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, March 30, 2002, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 95.4% of its visible face lit, 16.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

95.4%Illumination at noon UTC
16.4 dMoon age
361,559 km224,662 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (4°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 30, 2002 is on Thursday, March 28, 2002 at 18:25 UTC, 2 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, April 12, 2002 at 19:21 UTC, 13 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Thursday, March 28, 200218:25
Last Quarter (after)Thursday, April 4, 200215:29

The Moon around March 30

More about this date

Saturday, March 30, 2002 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 14, 2002 to the new moon of April 12, 2002, a cycle of 29.72 days.