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The Moon on Tuesday, October 8, 2002: Waxing Crescent, 6% lit

Waxing · 6.2% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 13°

Moon age

2.0days

Moon phase on October 8, 2002Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 8 October 2002360,556 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 6.2% of its visible face lit, 2.0 days after the new moon and growing each night.

6.2%Illumination at noon UTC
2.0 dMoon age
360,556 km224,039 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (14°)
33.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 8, 2002 is on Monday, October 21, 2002 at 07:20 UTC, 13 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Sunday, October 6, 2002 at 11:18 UTC, 2 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
New Moon (before)Sunday, October 6, 200211:18
First Quarter (after)Sunday, October 13, 200205:33

The Moon around October 8

More about this date

Tuesday, October 8, 2002 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of October 6, 2002 to the new moon of November 4, 2002, a cycle of 29.39 days.