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The Moon on Saturday, March 22, 2003: Waning Gibbous, 78% lit

Waning · 77.7% lit · ♏︎ Scorpio 27°

Moon age

19.4days

Moon phase on March 22, 2003Waning Gibbous

Saturday 22 March 2003365,475 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Saturday, March 22, 2003, the Moon was a Waning Gibbous: 77.7% of its visible face lit, 19.4 days after the new moon and shrinking each night.

77.7%Illumination at noon UTC
19.4 dMoon age
365,475 km227,096 mi from Earth
♏︎ ScorpioMoon sign (28°)
32.7′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaningLit on the left (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to March 22, 2003 is on Tuesday, March 18, 2003 at 10:35 UTC, 4 days earlier, and the nearest new moon is on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 at 19:19 UTC, 10 days later.

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

The Moon around March 22

More about this date

Saturday, March 22, 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.