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The Moon on Thursday, July 18, 2002: Waxing Gibbous, 65% lit

Waxing · 64.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 12°

Moon age

8.1days

Moon phase on July 18, 2002Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 18 July 2002372,918 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, July 18, 2002, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 64.7% of its visible face lit, 8.1 days after the new moon and growing each night.

64.7%Illumination at noon UTC
8.1 dMoon age
372,918 km231,721 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (13°)
32.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to July 18, 2002 is on Wednesday, July 24, 2002 at 09:07 UTC, 6 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, July 10, 2002 at 10:26 UTC, 8 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Wednesday, July 17, 200204:47
Full Moon (after)Wednesday, July 24, 200209:07

The Moon around July 18

More about this date

Thursday, July 18, 2002 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of July 10, 2002 to the new moon of August 8, 2002, a cycle of 29.37 days.