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The Moon on Tuesday, December 10, 2002: Waxing Crescent, 39% lit

Waxing · 39.0% lit · ♓︎ Pisces 05°

Moon age

6.2days

Moon phase on December 10, 2002Waxing Crescent

Tuesday 10 December 2002396,605 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Tuesday, December 10, 2002, the Moon was a Waxing Crescent: 39.0% of its visible face lit, 6.2 days after the new moon and growing each night.

39.0%Illumination at noon UTC
6.2 dMoon age
396,605 km246,439 mi from Earth
♓︎ PiscesMoon sign (5°)
30.1′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to December 10, 2002 is on Thursday, December 19, 2002 at 19:10 UTC, 9 days later, and the nearest new moon is on Wednesday, December 4, 2002 at 07:34 UTC, 6 days earlier.

The Moon around December 10

More about this date

Tuesday, December 10, 2002 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of December 4, 2002 to the new moon of January 2, 2003, a cycle of 29.53 days.