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The Moon on Friday, March 21, 2003: Waning Gibbous, 87% lit

Waning · 86.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 13°

Moon age

18.4days

Moon phase on March 21, 2003Waning Gibbous

Friday 21 March 2003362,198 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Friday, March 21, 2003, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 86.7% of its visible face lit, 18.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

86.7%Illumination at noon UTC
18.4 dMoon age
362,198 km225,059 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (13°)
33.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 21, 2003 is on Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 10:35 UTC, 3 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 at 19:19 UTC, 11 days later.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
Full Moon (before)Tuesday, March 18, 200310:35
Last Quarter (after)Tuesday, March 25, 200301:51

The Moon around March 21

More about this date

Friday, March 21, 2003 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of March 3, 2003 to the new moon of April 1, 2003, a cycle of 29.70 days.