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The Moon on Thursday, October 9, 2003: Waxing Gibbous, 99% lit

Waxing · 99.3% lit · ♈︎ Aries 06°

Moon age

13.4days

Moon phase on October 9, 2003Waxing Gibbous

Thursday 9 October 2003398,072 km · north up · 12:00 UTC

On Thursday, October 9, 2003, the Moon was a Waxing Gibbous: 99.3% of its visible face lit, 13.4 days after the new moon and growing each night.

99.3%Illumination at noon UTC
13.4 dMoon age
398,072 km247,350 mi from Earth
♈︎ AriesMoon sign (7°)
30.0′Apparent size (arcmin)
WaxingLit on the right (N. Hemisphere)

Nearest moon phases

The nearest full moon to October 9, 2003 is on Friday, October 10, 2003 at 07:28 UTC, 1 day later, and the nearest new moon is on Friday, September 26, 2003 at 03:09 UTC, 13 days earlier.

PhaseDateTime (UTC)
First Quarter (before)Thursday, October 2, 200319:09
Full Moon (after)Friday, October 10, 200307:28

The Moon around October 9

More about this date

Thursday, October 9, 2003 falls in the lunar cycle that runs from the new moon of September 26, 2003 to the new moon of October 25, 2003, a cycle of 29.40 days.